Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples white and a lighter green

white and a lighter green

then a drawer with brass pull on the lower half

I love a good bunny

what could be sweeter for holding a few favorite rings or a bunch of paperclips than this vintage gold and black lacquer frog box

elegant lines and the perfect green glaze

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples white and a lighter greenThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, and always subtly surprising. This is the most exuberantly colorful of the lot, and what a fantastic use of line I find the combination of those waves of blue and green hair with those striped dresses just wonderful, and zoom in especially for the profiles of the two figures in