James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing Hitoshi also as pictured

also as pictured

who holds what appears to be some sort of lantern

stands for Julie

Hang it from a ribbon in the office or studio both to be used as needed and enjoyed the rest of the time

and a soft yellow

James Bone "Leaves & Profiles & Bugs" 2010 Mixed Media Drawing Hitoshi also as picturedJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015), a prolific and perpetually curious, inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings late in life of floating forms composed of faces in profile, which I find simultaneously playful and poignant. Here the double portraits assume the form of leaves, some detailed with veins that simultaneously read as whisps of hair framing each face, and all arranged in rows surrounded by shading in autumnal shades of burnt orange