Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY carved head I'd guess early-ish 20th century

I'd guess early-ish 20th century

if one should be so lucky as to have a living relative born in 1931

though whether Italian or French or otherwise European

I have not cleaned it at all

(And I've just learned that San Roque was adopted as the patron saint of the pandemic

Wonderfully Awkward Still Life with Insect on Stem, House on Reverse, Henry Hinkel, 1913 Drawing , Lancaster NY carved head I'd guess early-ish 20th centuryOne of a handful today pulled from the already falling apart sketchbook of a young Henry Henkel of Lancaster, NY, who wrote his name many times all over it. I just love the wonkiness of this still life basket of fruit, looking as if the arrangement itself was composed by young Henry himself, without much of a mind to balance! And with this wonderful little purple bug (looking a bit like a sheep with antennae) marching toward the end of the stem. And