Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata cast iron owl including at the Art Institute

including at the Art Institute of Chicago

I have been keeping a keen eye out for other tramp art treasures

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Abstract Mid-Century Colored Pencil and Graphite Drawing Signed Beata cast iron owl including at the Art InstituteI have a vague notion that this drawing may have been done by Swedish artist Beata Mrtensson (1880 1956), who was best known as the first female artist at Gustavsberg porcelain factory, 19081910, where she designed bowls, vases and tableware. She then moved to Paris and later lived in New York, which is when in my theory would guess she did this, before returning to Sweden in 1953. The signature is close to the one Mrtensson used she to sign her