James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing antique engraving sea polyps The leather is wonderfully worn

The leather is wonderfully worn to a warm dark brown and it just has a great feeling to it

The bear measures 3 1/2” tall x 2 1/4” wide x 3 1/2” long

shape and style of painting I’d guess it’s American and dates to the mid to late 19th century

the more I love it

which runs all the way around the perimeters of each tray

James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing antique engraving sea polyps The leather is wonderfully wornJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015), a prolific and perpetually curious, inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings late in life of floating forms composed of faces in profile, which I find simultaneously playful and poignant. Here the double portraits assume the form of leaves, some detailed with veins that simultaneously read as whisps of hair framing each face, and all arranged in rows surrounded by shading in autumnal shades of burnt orange