Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s wooden carved frog glossy surface that turns black

glossy surface that turns black on exposure to air

The pin measures 2 3/4" at longest

MA artist Lois Gross Smiley

I am uncertain as to whether it is bronze cast or iron cast with bronze finish (it is quite heavy for its size)

I really love the colors on Persian Qajar era pottery--super lush

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s wooden carved frog glossy surface that turns blackThis 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, and always subtly surprising. This is the most exuberantly colorful of the lot, and what a fantastic use of line I find the combination of those waves of blue and green hair with those striped dresses just wonderful, and zoom in especially for the profiles of the two figures in