SOLD Henry Hickel's Perfect Graphite and Crayon Star, 1913, Lancaster NY drawing of plant and arriving in person visit

and arriving in person visit soon after that

I love a naive bird watercolor

with this one landing toward the left end of that scale

wooden roadside chapel that he also covered with crosses and signs

I've documented a representative sample of engravings--a selection of engravings first followed by a few pages of text

SOLD Henry Hickel's Perfect Graphite and Crayon Star, 1913, Lancaster NY drawing of plant and arriving in person visitOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart 1913 sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it and stamped it all over this particular page! This is the drawing that completely sold me on the sketchbook I find this pastel crayoned eight point star, drawn over a fainter penciled grid, used to help him get it just right a transcendently lovely thing. And with the star very much making me