Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s carved wooden hand I found these fabulous homemade

I found these fabulous homemade hummingbird lures at an antique shop in Maine

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Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s carved wooden hand I found these fabulous homemadeI keep thinking this mermaid drawing would make a pretty great tattoo! It comes from sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta, done in the 1930s or so, while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Surely it is based on an old carving, maybe a figurehead from a ship, and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum. Malta's work, which also included paintings and prints, is found