INK AND TISSUE PAPER COLLAGE BY UNKNOWN ARTIST (1978) ART005 at the height of GUSTAVSBERG's

at the height of GUSTAVSBERG's commercial success

15 km southwest of Bonn

Sent to live in Chicago at fifteen in 1924—near the tail-end of the mass migration of Eastern European Jews to the US—she worked long hours in the garment industry during the day and took night classes in painting and sculpture at the local Jewish People’s Institute

and as Lee says

INK AND TISSUE PAPER COLLAGE BY UNKNOWN ARTIST (1978) ART005 at the height of GUSTAVSBERG'sA mixed media collage of tissue paper shards. Dyed to various organic shades of green and brown that encompass the quintessential 70s shades of Harvest Gold and Avocado Green, the fragments are folded, layered, and shellacked into place on a stained background. The composition is split horizontally by a dark phalanx of gauzy figures, with moss above and sand below. Splattered all over with discrete dribbles of India ink. Indistinctly signed and dated