Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper Clare Leighton Ship Buiding I purchased it right off

I purchased it right off the wall of an antique shop going out of business

or definitely hung on the wall

Light wood slider: 8"x 4 5/8" x 3 1/8"

The patterns of her dress and border around the rim are terrific too

very moving

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper Clare Leighton Ship Buiding I purchased it right offI am not quite sure why I find this drawing painting so satisfying, but I do, totally. It feels completely resolved, and rather like it always existed, effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper, which, scuffed and smudged, feels like its been around forever too. I believe it is actually a portrait of the late artist and longtime art professor Leon Hovsepian of Worchester, MA, at whose estate sale I purchased it; perhaps