Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Woman with Watch and Very Long Fingernails antique folk art houses currently out of print

currently out of print

there is something about the interaction between my iPhone camera and this vase that makes the surface decoration (hand-painted using a resist technique for the crescent shapes I believe) appear a bit blurry

made by a Victor Gordon

Found together with a second whimsy just listed

WPA artists produced thousands of these models in the 1930s as educational visual aids for schools

Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Woman with Watch and Very Long Fingernails antique folk art houses currently out of printA couple of years ago I bought a small stack of drawings that I soon later learned were the work of Bill Anthony, a mid 20th century artist illustrator from Virginia, examples of whose work (somewhat more risque than this one, and also more absurd!) were presented in Josh Lowenfels booth at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair. (Blurb from artsy. net below.) I sold a number of them then and sat on the rest, but on this week when I didn't get out hunting, I