James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing Hitoshi stands for Julie

stands for Julie

Print on cream paper of a nice weight

with some wear/aging to the exterior as there should be and a few tiny dings

I've never seen another set with pairs made by two unlike halves that come together to form one phrase and image (rather than pairs of two identical cards) --and what wonderful images and phrases they are

James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing Hitoshi stands for JulieJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015), a prolific and perpetually curious, inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings late in life of floating forms composed of faces in profile, which I find simultaneously playful and poignant. Here the double portraits assume the form of leaves, some detailed with veins that simultaneously read as whisps of hair framing each face, and all arranged in rows surrounded by shading in autumnal shades of burnt orange