Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern with its great zig zag

with its great zig zag handle and simple but brilliant interior organizational system

This is the most beautiful old school slate I believe I have ever seen

Believed to have shape-shifting qualities and called upon in ritual in order to clarify visions

and I've looked at a fair number and sold a number of them

snake-like one is a very old drafting brush

Helen Malta, Boys Selling Bananas, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s circle pattern with its great zig zagThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, and always surprising. This one certainly calls the drawings of Paul Klee to mind, but feels to me really fresh and immediate I can just imagine the young artist standing before these two young men on a New York sidewalk, buying her fresh fish and bananas! The colored pencil used