James Bone Couple with Backs Turned on Wicker Table, Drawing on Collage Jens Quisgaard Just above his stick is

Just above his stick is a bit of a brown spot which gives that patch of the sky a bit of the feel of a tiny tornado

Early 20th century and reflecting a pretty strong Asian influence I think

” “Hell’s Habitants Considered as a Traveling Circus

Quite a special and precious little bird this is

There is such a warmth and intimacy to it that I'd guess the painter

James Bone Couple with Backs Turned on Wicker Table, Drawing on Collage Jens Quisgaard Just above his stick isFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), two more collage drawings (the other listed separately) animating Victorian wicker furniture from an old catalog. To me, the best drawings seem effortless, like they always existed in the ether and were just waiting to be put to paper like this one, where this couple with backs turned to one another seem as if they were destined for