Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman yet with a great elegance

yet with a great elegance and delicacy of surface treatment

" making it feel especially apt for the present moment

which would certainly make a fabulous wedding present

The proportions of the box are terrific too

but has a great presence

Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman yet with a great eleganceTo my eye this "crock study" quite transcends itself as a study (an art school exercise I might guess), and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling, minimalist sort of a painting, which manages to impart this large pottery crock with a wonderfully stoic sense of force and grandeur. The squareness of the bottom of the crock above what I take for the ledge of a table seems to strip it of illusionism and makes the painting itself a