Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s accordion fold box A very elegant piece that

A very elegant piece that would hold its own amid any collection of beautiful boxes

organizing office supplies on a desk

and the others of which are attached to the wrists

in the meantime I would simply set or hang this beautiful tool somewhere I could see it and pick it up more than occasionally

with a little dryness to the surface of the wood

Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s accordion fold box A very elegant piece thatThis drawing takes me straight to a park in New York, sitting on a bench and watching this woman who has surely made a daily habit of coming to feed these birds. While notes on the drawing ("red and blue dots" written on the woman's shoulder, and "brilliant blue and green birds" at bottom right) suggest that this was a quick sketch in advance of a more finished drawings, I think the looseness and lack of color, combined with the way her hair falls