Eskimo Ice, 1970s Greenwich Village Street Photo mallets Paint loss and missing pieces

Paint loss and missing pieces s evident

any flaw that I can see

21 drawings

Paintings of artists at work in their studios is one of my favorite subjects to begin with--a genre unto itself--and this sculptor also feels akin in spirit to a toymaker in his workshop

Tin measures 4 3/8" t x 3 5/8" in diameter

Eskimo Ice, 1970s Greenwich Village Street Photo mallets Paint loss and missing piecesI purchased this one from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley, with lots of bins of drawings and photos and ephemera to dig through. I love it for feeling like a whole world on a corner, and iconic of a Manhattan long gone. (The Eskimo Ice cart also makes me think of David Hammons's brilliant snowballs for sale street performance of 1983.) A handwritten note on the reverse of the photo reads "Greenwich Village, 1970s" and looking closely one