The Picture of Good Manner [Account of Sir William Gooch
Once he certainly had cloth arms
Seems to me the side with the hunting dog came first
and have just enjoyed having him sitting around for a while
SOLD William L'Engle (1884-1957) Large Graphite Sketch of Martha Graham Dancer, c. 1930 dansk internation The Picture of Good MannerIt's not all that often I purchase works by known artists, especially from the "fine arts" world, but today a few, for me embodying the beauty of a sensitive, confident, gestural line. This, as with the drawings of cats by C. Bertram Hartman, I purchased from a dealer in Cambridge, MA, and this one, though unsigned, I know is by William L'Engle (American, 1884 1957), c. 1930, its subject a Martha Graham dancer. (Timely, as the Martha Graham company is