Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s carved wooden hand 2 3/8" long x 1

2 3/8" long x 1 3/4" wide x 1 7/8" tall and in excellent condition

with the oak re-stained a nice mahogany

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and beautifully done

MA in 1876 as a patented medicine called Moxie Nerve food and went on to become one of the first mass-produced soft drinks in the U

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s carved wooden hand 2 3/8" long x 1I keep thinking this mermaid drawing would make a pretty great tattoo! It comes from sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta, done in the 1930s or so, while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Surely it is based on an old carving, maybe a figurehead from a ship, and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum. Malta's work, which also included paintings and prints, is found