Wonderful 1950 Pencil Signed Mixed Media Print “Bird” by Harold Zussin two-toned wood box Quite a curious one

Quite a curious one

Just the figure measures 4 5/8" t

and perhaps it is the wall of an old stables he is posed against

This one I purchased for what I see as its sheer beauty and wonderful moodiness—and for how much this young man looks like a character out of Dickens or the like

) but not an issue if just set on a shelf like an object

Wonderful 1950 Pencil Signed Mixed Media Print “Bird” by Harold Zussin two-toned wood box Quite a curious oneWhat I've learned about Harold Zussin, who did this striking "Bird," in 1950, is that he was born in Chicago, 1915, and that apart from a brief period of study at the Evening School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was entirely self taught. He seems to have been active in Chicago, with a a two person exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1948, and later in Maine, with auction records from the sale of his work through several auction houses in