Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper boat race I love the directness and

I love the directness and simplicity of the black face

Day on the first yellow bead

in a powder room

I would guess he dates from the late 19th or early 20th century

The face of the disk shows brown where it was once white

Ink Painting of Man in Partial Profile on Green Paper boat race I love the directness andI 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