Helen Malta Boy with Caged Bird Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s round platter with tall lip coffee and tea

coffee and tea

illustrator

and its rusty brown color animated with drippy black veins

and I have great admiration for the creativity of its maker

Suda was strongly influenced by both Danish Modern pottery and native Canadian art--influences which I think wonderfully merge in these earthy and strikingly graphic hand-formed candleholders

Helen Malta Boy with Caged Bird Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s round platter with tall lip coffee and teaThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, just enough and always subtly surprising. This and the rest from what I understand came from a sketchbook of drawings she did in the 1930s or so, while teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Malta's work, which also