Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples I've fallen in love with

I've fallen in love with the work of Alice Nanogak through seeing pieces in a couple of exhibitions of Inuit prints (that blew me away) over the past few years

and would be great either sitting on the counter or mounted on the wall (there is an old brass bracket attached at some point with one screw to the back for just this purpose)

However I have found no other like this one

what could be sweeter for holding a few favorite rings or a bunch of paperclips than this vintage gold and black lacquer frog box

These plates were purchased from the estate of a prominent choreographer in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples I've fallen in love withThis 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, and always subtly surprising. This is the most exuberantly colorful of the lot, and what a fantastic use of line I find the combination of those waves of blue and green hair with those striped dresses just wonderful, and zoom in especially for the profiles of the two figures in