Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s bronze seal A few small stains at

A few small stains at lower left

2) an unnamed Byzantine sculpture

is especially lovely--and fairly unusual in having a handle

I believe British c

Helen Malta Pencil Sketch of Woman Feeding Birds, 1930s bronze seal A few small stains 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