Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s bronze seal and then the point at

and then the point at which the surface of the liquid touches the stem of the hydrometer gives a measure of its relative density

A few small stains at lower left

but also as the evocation of two bodies pressed snugly up against one another when placed side by side

with a some wear and a couple of rough spots on the rim of the handle near where it meets the bristles

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Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s bronze seal and then the point atThis drawing takes me straight to a park in New York, sitting on a bench and watching this woman who has surely made a daily habit of coming to feed these birds. While notes on the drawing ("red and blue dots" written on the woman's shoulder, and "brilliant blue and green birds" at bottom right) suggest that this was a quick sketch in advance of a more finished drawings, I think the looseness and lack of color, combined with the way her hair falls