James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 old tramp art frames especially on the top

especially on the top

6" long x 1 3/4" wide x 1" deep

at whose estate sale I found it—that it was something—and I was right

Beautifully made

James Bone "Profiles (Chimney Sweeps)" Colored Pencil Drawing, 2010 old tramp art frames especially on the topJames Frederic Bone (1929 2015) a prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist, did a series of drawings very late in life of floating forms composed double profiles. While others are more abstract, this one seems to portray specific individuals, parenthetically described as chimney sweeps with the hand written quote on the back of the paper making one wonder whether the drawing portrays friends or lovers lost. "Fear no more the heat of the sun