Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper Clare Leighton Ship Buiding Just fabulous

Just fabulous

with light wear to the wood and some tiny white spots on one side only that likely seem to come off with a little care

or definitely hung on the wall

Never a bad thing to honor Courage

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper Clare Leighton Ship Buiding Just fabulousI am not quite sure why I find this drawing painting so satisfying, but I do, totally. It feels completely resolved, and rather like it always existed, effortlessly emerging at some point from this sheet of muted green paper, which, scuffed and smudged, feels like its been around forever too. I believe it is actually a portrait of the late artist and longtime art professor Leon Hovsepian of Worchester, MA, at whose estate sale I purchased it; perhaps