SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing athletics So many good valentine’s this

So many good valentine’s this week I think

I come across 19th c Sunderland lustreware/ transferware plaques along the lines of this one occasionally

especially) and a gasoline can

Carved into the front in large bold letters is "Adam and Eve Joke Book 1922" and on the spine "Forget Me Not

SOLD Black Pail, Bold and Very Satisfying c. 1930s School Marker on Paper Drawing athletics So many good valentine’s thisThis for me is one of those old kid drawings that feels transcendent. A straight ahead black marker drawing of a simple pail, but the variation in the density saturation of the coloring, and the slight bleeding of the marker along the edges, and those little x's where wire handle hooks to the bucket itself just lovely. And, rendered in such an "iconic" sort of way, the simple pail takes on something of a larger than life significance, as a form object