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

sculptural thing when I found it

debuted its Humpty Dumpty Circus in 1903 and this stand I believe dates to not long after that

but I love these two so much

which looks to me as if pretty subtly grain painted

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