Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s perched bird Really a great piece and

Really a great piece and wonderful gift for your favorite cook

And then there is the red hand-stitched string holding it together

it may be marble but I'm not quite certain

and artist statements

All pretty minor

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s perched bird Really a great piece andI 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