Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper ship captains The orange geometric design and

The orange geometric design and black scalloped lines are slightly more thickly painted

it seems there were a whole series of these made for export in the earlyish 20th century featuring an array of different dogs as well as other animals

It was purchased at the estate sale of a family of artists and collectors in Marblehead

including several pieces from Asiatica in KansasCity

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper ship captains The orange geometric design andI 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