James Bone Pencil Drawing of Cat with Two Tails on Green Paper fishing float heavy and substantial

heavy and substantial

The individual kernels are glazed a bright white with yellowy brown details

and have a sense that the bottle is fairly old (it is marked with a B and a 6 on the bottom

for carving I believe

James Bone Pencil Drawing of Cat with Two Tails on Green Paper fishing float heavy and substantialFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), this is a pretty quick sketch, but one which with these cocked (very arm like) front legs and two tails arching in opposite directions pretty perfectly captures the energy of a very alert cat! (I can almost see a mouse in the distance!) It's done in pencil on a the pale green backside of shiny silver paper. Unsigned and undated but I