James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform pleasuring kids and adults alike

pleasuring kids and adults alike

many batches of home-baked cookies

the exaggerated hands with individuated fingers

I think it looks especially terrific filled with a couple of small flowering or berry branches

On the sides are loops

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform pleasuring kids and adults alikeFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), this is one of two wonderful 1991 cutout silhouette self portraits, with the features including tattooed ear and fanstastic star like wrinkles around the eye playfully rendered in black ink dots. Often recycling materials in his work, this one makes use of of a letter to Henry Fogel, Director of the Chicago Symphony, praising the