Lewis Smith Caboose, Ink and Crayon on Graham Cracker Box Cardboard ragball The perimeter edge was trimmed

The perimeter edge was trimmed but not stitched down

making this is a perfect gift for a favorite chef

) It thus comes as no great surprise that it is signed on the back Claudio Jimenez

Framed: 10 1/2” x 8 1/2”

Lewis Smith Caboose, Ink and Crayon on Graham Cracker Box Cardboard ragball The perimeter edge was trimmedOne more often sees Lewis Smith's drawings of women boxers and wrestlers and diners, but the first love of the the self taught Ohio artist (1907 1988) was trains, the subject of his earliest, very detailed drawings, dating to the 1920s and it was a lifetime railroad pass that allowed him to travel beyond the family farm in rural Ohio to pursue his other subjects. He returned to the train in this later work, c. 1980s I believe, ink and crayon on