Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug but still reads bright and

but still reads bright and crisp

This guy is the real deal--a very early issue tin litho Lehmann Climbing Monkey

and just what it is

and both earthy and refined

and I know pretty rare--and this set is really in excellent condition

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug but still reads bright andI 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