Wonderful 1950 Pencil Signed Mixed Media Print “Bird” by Harold Zussin two-toned wood box with some light printed stain

with some light printed stain on front (maybe from another postcard) and writing in pencil on the back

) but not an issue if just set on a shelf like an object

This one I purchased for what I see as its sheer beauty and wonderful moodiness—and for how much this young man looks like a character out of Dickens or the like

Perhaps it's because I was listening to the impeachment hearings when I spotted it

Wonderful 1950 Pencil Signed Mixed Media Print “Bird” by Harold Zussin two-toned wood box with some light printed stainWhat I've learned about Harold Zussin, who did this striking "Bird," in 1950, is that he was born in Chicago, 1915, and that apart from a brief period of study at the Evening School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was entirely self taught. He seems to have been active in Chicago, with a a two person exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1948, and later in Maine, with auction records from the sale of his work through several auction houses in