Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board Gujarat bag these with brass center pins

these with brass center pins and two smaller brass pins on the diagonal

with a little age toning and smudging on the paper around the edges

and 2 1/2" deep

The platter is signed on the bottom in glaze

Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board Gujarat bag these with brass center pinsTo my eye this "crock study" quite transcends itself as a study (an art school exercise I might guess), and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling, minimalist sort of a painting, which manages to impart this large pottery crock with a wonderfully stoic sense of force and grandeur. The squareness of the bottom of the crock above what I take for the ledge of a table seems to strip it of illusionism and makes the painting itself a