Helen Malta Boy with Caged Bird Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s brick 4 7/8" w x 3

4 7/8" w x 3 5/8" d x 2 1/4" t and in excellent vintage condition

I'm really not sure this one is that old

A very elegant piece that would hold its own amid any collection of beautiful boxes

distinct and engaging from every angle

I believe) itself measures 4 1/4”x 5 1/2”

Helen Malta Boy with Caged Bird Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s brick 4 7/8" w x 3This 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, just enough and always subtly surprising. This and the rest from what I understand came from a sketchbook of drawings she did in the 1930s or so, while teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Malta's work, which also