Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper brass calendar Based on other ginger jars

Based on other ginger jars to which it bears closest resemblance

one presses down and turns the lid

I would use this gorgeous slab-formed studio pottery plate/platter/tray for serving anything and everything

I have not touched the wood

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper brass calendar Based on other ginger jarsI 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