Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY future pasy And on the flip side

And on the flip side

quite lovely

"Immensity" and "Omnipotent" feeling like very pointed poems

his year of death matching the date carved into this)

at odds with the monogram

Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY future pasy And on the flip sideOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it. I just love the wonkiness of this still life basket of fruit, looking as if the arrangement itself was composed by young Henry himself, without much of a mind to balance! And with this wonderful little purple bug (looking a bit like a sheep with antennae) marching toward the end of the stem. And