Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper boat race The face of the disk

The face of the disk shows brown where it was once white

Art nouveau in style

I would think they were the real thing

and that this was was her laundry stick throughout from girlhood to old age

in a powder room

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper boat race The face of the diskI am not quite sure why I find this drawing painting so satisfying, but I do, totally. It feels completely resolved, and rather like it always existed, effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper, which, scuffed and smudged, feels like its been around forever too. I believe it is actually a portrait of the late artist and longtime art professor Leon Hovsepian of Worchester, MA, at whose estate sale I purchased it; perhaps