1958 Cadillac Eldorado, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 knave of hearts with 14 fabric "pages" completely

with 14 fabric "pages" completely filled front and back

I find seeing the two versions side by side quite pleasing to the eye

and then that red and blue butterfly at left

Suda was strongly influenced by both Danish Modern pottery and native Canadian art--influences which I think wonderfully merge in these earthy and strikingly graphic hand-formed candleholders

product of a singular artistic vision

1958 Cadillac Eldorado, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 knave of hearts with 14 fabric "pages" completelyThis drawing came from a larger portfolio of some 50 drawings, all of cars, most initialed and dated 1969 or 70 on reverse, which with some piecing together I've figured out were done by a Jerry Thayer Garvin of Nottingham, NH all as the imagined holdings of a fictional "Wildfire Corporation" founded in 1898. Found in the portfolio was an elaborate set of notes detailing the makers and models of the cars held in this fictional Wildfire Collection,