1930 Buick Sport Roadster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 untrained artist drawing small ice cubes

small ice cubes

the most "primitive" of the three I'd say

The best thing is sticking your hand inside and animating him: I think one could use him to ask anyone for anything and they would feel compelled to say yes

with a little paint loss around the edges and a small ding or smudge here and there

5 1/4" across with arms outstretched

1930 Buick Sport Roadster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 untrained artist drawing small ice cubesThis drawing came from a larger portfolio of some 50 drawings, all of cars, most initialed and dated 1969 or 70 on reverse, which with some piecing together I've figured out were done by a Jerry Thayer Garvin of Nottingham, NH all as the imagined holdings of a fictional "Wildfire Corporation" founded in 1898. Found in the portfolio was an elaborate set of notes detailing the makers and models of the cars held in this fictional Wildfire Collection,