Eskimo Ice, 1970s Greenwich Village Street Photo round mat Light staining/foxing and browning &

Light staining/foxing and browning & bleeding of what I would guess was once black ink

To my eye quite a satisfying thing

Below the top eye holes are a second pair of cutouts backed by hide pockets

Short fork: 10 1/4" x 2 5/8" x 1/2"

9 1/4" across at the outside of feet

Eskimo Ice, 1970s Greenwich Village Street Photo round mat Light staining/foxing and browning &I purchased this one from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley, with lots of bins of drawings and photos and ephemera to dig through. I love it for feeling like a whole world on a corner, and iconic of a Manhattan long gone. (The Eskimo Ice cart also makes me think of David Hammons's brilliant snowballs for sale street performance of 1983.) A handwritten note on the reverse of the photo reads "Greenwich Village, 1970s" and looking closely one