Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Woman with Watch and Very Long Fingernails antique folk art houses there is something about the

there is something about the interaction between my iPhone camera and this vase that makes the surface decoration (hand-painted using a resist technique for the crescent shapes I believe) appear a bit blurry

and how much—like a high school yearbook—it reveals of the times

Found together with a second whimsy just listed

toys and figures in this vein

5" long with corkscrew

Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Woman with Watch and Very Long Fingernails antique folk art houses there is something about theA couple of years ago I bought a small stack of drawings that I soon later learned were the work of Bill Anthony, a mid 20th century artist illustrator from Virginia, examples of whose work (somewhat more risque than this one, and also more absurd!) were presented in Josh Lowenfels booth at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair. (Blurb from artsy. net below.) I sold a number of them then and sat on the rest, but on this week when I didn't get out hunting, I