Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples There are some unique attributes

There are some unique attributes to the baskets of each tribe

elegant lines and the perfect green glaze

However I have found no other like this one

and would be great either sitting on the counter or mounted on the wall (there is an old brass bracket attached at some point with one screw to the back for just this purpose)

These plates were purchased from the estate of a prominent choreographer in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood

Helen Malta, Women and Potted Plants, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s paintings of couples There are some unique attributesThis is one of several just in drawings by Helen Wagner Malta (1912 1975), which I am completely taken with gentle and sweet without being saccharine, delicate but decisive, and always subtly surprising. This is the most exuberantly colorful of the lot, and what a fantastic use of line I find the combination of those waves of blue and green hair with those striped dresses just wonderful, and zoom in especially for the profiles of the two figures in