James Bone Couple with Backs Turned on Wicker Table, Drawing on Collage Jens Quisgaard There is such a warmth

There is such a warmth and intimacy to it that I'd guess the painter

Definitely it was done many years ago--in magic marker I believe--as the paper is pretty brittle

where this industry had just been shut down

which swivels 360 degrees

Quite a special and precious little bird this is

James Bone Couple with Backs Turned on Wicker Table, Drawing on Collage Jens Quisgaard There is such a warmthFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), two more collage drawings (the other listed separately) animating Victorian wicker furniture from an old catalog. To me, the best drawings seem effortless, like they always existed in the ether and were just waiting to be put to paper like this one, where this couple with backs turned to one another seem as if they were destined for