Daggers! Vintage Lewis Smith (1907-18988) Ink Drawing (with Baseball Bats on Reverse) shrimp netsuke born in 1951 in Jemez

born in 1951 in Jemez Pueblo

I find it very hard to resist antique pin cushions like these--so much care

I assume doing some commercial work on the side to make some money

folk art watercolors and theorem paintings

but I love these two so much

Daggers! Vintage Lewis Smith (1907-18988) Ink Drawing (with Baseball Bats on Reverse) shrimp netsuke born in 1951 in JemezSelf taught Ohio based artist Lewis Smith (1907 1988) is best known for his drawings of diners, women boxers and wrestlers, and trains (it was a lifetime railroad pass that allowed him to travel beyond the family farm in rural Ohio to pursue his other subjects), but I always like the unusual ones, and the most casual sorts of drawings, so jumped immediately on this one, which reminds me of tattoo flash art, too. Daggers and sort of anchor like forms