Why Not? Vintage Man on Motorcycle Graphite Drawing on Board carved figure writing set carefully studying its pictures of

carefully studying its pictures of wild animals in Africa and imagining himself sailing down the Nile

The striking contrast between the wood of the matchsticks and their charcoal tips

which echoes the rightward-glancing eyes

and I believe that these are Haitian teak

I'm not sure if it was a kid or an artist who made it (it is signed S

Why Not? Vintage Man on Motorcycle Graphite Drawing on Board carved figure writing set carefully studying its pictures ofThis fabulous drawing came from a porfolio of c. 1916 18 art school drawings by a student named Rachel S. Roberts but is quite out of keeping with the rest of her drawings, most clearly done for assignments, and I have to think it was likely done by someone else. Perhaps by a young man and fellow student encouraging her to step out of her comfort zone?! We'll never know, but hard to beat it as a portrait of a bad boy on his bike, complete with