Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug and just what it is

and just what it is

and both earthy and refined

Very thin-walled

I've found a few online with the same shape and structure

then with all the color painted by hand) in a terrifically bright palette of pinks

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug and just what it isI keep thinking this mermaid drawing would make a pretty great tattoo! It comes from sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta, done in the 1930s or so, while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Surely it is based on an old carving, maybe a figurehead from a ship, and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum. Malta's work, which also included paintings and prints, is found