Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s wooden carved frog one of which

one of which

and I'd say they have many years of play left in them

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

The pin measures 2 3/4" at longest

” “The Blind Boy and the Loon

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s wooden carved frog one of whichThis 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