Red White and Blue Pin Up Girl 1940s Drawing Harriet Claire Mansfield extraordinary mask spiky cactus

spiky cactus

so all the more so

but then was excited to discover a complete vintage lettering set inside

with just a tiny loss of paint in a couple of spots

Red White and Blue Pin Up Girl 1940s Drawing Harriet Claire Mansfield extraordinary mask spiky cactusI must say that what really sold me on this drawing are this woman's insanely long fingernails! (displayed to great effect as they hold this ambiguous stick a pool cue? a flag pole sans flag?) The stars on the underside of her hat brim at pretty great too, as well as her contrasting red and blue shoes. And then her blushing face seems straight out of a John Currin painting, specifically looking very much like Rachel Feinstein. Early 1940s and by a