Helen Malta Boy with Caged Bird Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s round platter with tall lip With their elegant graphics and

With their elegant graphics and terrific color palettes

I believe it is carved of burl wood and is a gorgeous warm honey color (possibly maple)

quite striking themselves

I think this vintage mid-century brass piggy bank would make the perfect gift for the young and emerging collector (i

Helen Malta Boy with Caged Bird Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s round platter with tall lip With their elegant graphics andThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, just enough and always subtly surprising. This and the rest from what I understand came from a sketchbook of drawings she did in the 1930s or so, while teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Malta's work, which also