James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 pin pillow but based on others I

but based on others I have found is original to this set

vintage 1930s

3 3/4" wide x 2 1/2" deep x 3 1/8" tall (4 1/8" tall including leather pull

mostly in one area on the right side lower edge of the front

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 pin pillow but based on others IFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), this is one of two wonderful 1991 cutout silhouette self portraits, with the features including tattooed ear and fanstastic star like wrinkles around the eye playfully rendered in black ink dots. Often recycling materials in his work, this one makes use of of a letter to Henry Fogel, Director of the Chicago Symphony, praising the