Lewis Smith Caboose, Ink and Crayon on Graham Cracker Box Cardboard ragball structurally super sound with no

structurally super sound with no splits or cracks

Framed: 10 1/2” x 8 1/2”

Smiley attended the Dalton School in New York

and the version of the can rendered 1960s or so

The drawing is in very good overall vintage condition

Lewis Smith Caboose, Ink and Crayon on Graham Cracker Box Cardboard ragball structurally super sound with noOne more often sees Lewis Smith's drawings of women boxers and wrestlers and diners, but the first love of the the self taught Ohio artist (1907 1988) was trains, the subject of his earliest, very detailed drawings, dating to the 1920s and it was a lifetime railroad pass that allowed him to travel beyond the family farm in rural Ohio to pursue his other subjects. He returned to the train in this later work, c. 1980s I believe, ink and crayon on