Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman as in the case of

as in the case of this drawing I think

The proportions of the box are terrific too

6 3/4" t x 7" across at handle

" making it feel especially apt for the present moment

yet with a great elegance and delicacy of surface treatment

Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman as in the case ofTo my eye this "crock study" quite transcends itself as a study (an art school exercise I might guess), and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling, minimalist sort of a painting, which manages to impart this large pottery crock with a wonderfully stoic sense of force and grandeur. The squareness of the bottom of the crock above what I take for the ledge of a table seems to strip it of illusionism and makes the painting itself a