Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women Both approx 4 1/2" long

Both approx 4 1/2" long

circa 1930s-40s

and perfect flourishes below the lettering

) Such an elegant form suggesting a bird through the sparest of means (it feels to me quite reminiscent of early Native American bird stones)

Beheading in Silhouette, Haunting and Unusual Old Cut Paper Work winged women Both approx 4 1/2" longNot for the feint of heart, but quite a striking and potent as well as unusual cut paper silhouette, I'd say. Which, as I look at it, seems all to hinge on this woman standing before the beheaded figure I'd like to imagine it is she who has finally gotten justice. (Being strongly averse to capital punishment, myself, I'll read that justice as metaphorical.) Hard to look at a silhouetted scene like this without thinking of the work of Kara Walker now,