Drawing

The work related to this drawing was commissioned by Henry Hawthorn's mother-in-law, Eileen Rutledge, as a gift for Mr. Hawthorn. The design was executed on a leather billfold which was subsequently lost.

contemporary art

Box-like design of a bordered frontal face; double-eye motif in slanted pointed eyelid lines; shading around eye areas; rounded triangular-like nose attached to upper lip band; inside mouth, a triangle, a circle, two slanted bars, upper and lower teeth, tongue protrudes; small seated frontal human below mouth has double layered rounded body, curvilinear arms terminating in outward facing palms with ovoid design, outlined bent knees; human flanked by split u forms; outward facing salmon-trout heads in lower corners; ovoids with interior crescent-like designs in upper corners, u forms on either side; crosshatched background. Instructions for execution of design below image on right; serrated edge at side on right.