Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY carved head exquisitely crafted object that I

exquisitely crafted object that I find unbelievably beautiful and powerful

The embroidery along the top edge is especially lovely

which looks likely to be adhered to board and is not behind glass in the frame

James Frederic Bone (1929-2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist

on the back of the canvas

Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY carved head exquisitely crafted object that IOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it. I just love the wonkiness of this still life basket of fruit, looking as if the arrangement itself was composed by young Henry himself, without much of a mind to balance! And with this wonderful little purple bug (looking a bit like a sheep with antennae) marching toward the end of the stem. And