Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s antique Indian honor and penmanship

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with heavy tacks securing it on the sides and back

7 1/4" long x 5 1/8" deep x 2 3/4" tall

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Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s antique Indian honor and penmanshipThis 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