James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 old tramp art frames 13" tall x 8 3/4"

13" tall x 8 3/4" across at widest x 5 1/2" deep and in great condition

then the other

gold-painted flying bird on the corner of the box

Sometimes the pewter or silver bottoms of flasks such as these were removable

James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 old tramp art frames 13" tall x 8 3/4"James Frederic Bone (1929 2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed double profiles. While others are more abstract, this one seems to portray specific individuals, parenthetically described as chimney sweeps with the hand written quote on the back of the paper making one wonder whether the drawing portrays friends or lovers lost. "Fear no more the heat of the sun