Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers antique English box and dated 1965

and dated 1965

I don't know a thing about the origins of this carved sculpture (which I don't think photos quite do justice)

Fred Sandback

smooth surface

took a pledge of total abstinence and  met once a week to listen to lectures and participate in activities

Charles Foss Antique Sketchbook with Punning Drawings and Painted Flowers antique English box and dated 1965This little notebook of sketches and paintings by a Charles A Foss feels a bit schizophrenic amid a series of quite clever (and I think quite fabulous) punning pencil drawings are a number of simple little paintings of flowers. The flowers are perfectly pretty, but it is the drawings I love, and in this case might be inclined to remove some of them from the sketchbook so as to frame them. (Happily, all drawings have blanks pages on the reverse, so