Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Two Women Seated on Brick Wall vintage Zanesville cream vase and with subtle variation from

and with subtle variation from front to back-- more definition (deeper carving) to the shoulders on one facing side

The underside is signed AD

but I know the portfolio itself

with no chips

which may be original to the material/the making of the carvings

Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Two Women Seated on Brick Wall vintage Zanesville cream vase and with subtle variation fromAfter buying and selling a drawing by the same artist as this one a few weeks ago, I learned that the artist was Bill Anthony, a mid 20th century artist illustrator from Virginia, examples of whose work (significantly more risque than this one, and also more absurd!) were presented in Josh Lowenfels booth at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair. (Blurb from artsy. net below.) Women in short skirts and high heels were clearly his fixation, but it's the