SOLD William L'Engle (1884-1957) Large Graphite Sketch of Martha Graham Dancer, c. 1930 folk art seaplane unsigned as far as I

unsigned as far as I can tell

6 7/8" t x 4 1/4" w

late 19th century or so I would guess

The hand-engraved exterior is fun-- man in loin cloth with stallion as if straight out of a romance novel on one side

making me very happy when I found it in inland southern Maine this week

SOLD William L'Engle (1884-1957) Large Graphite Sketch of Martha Graham Dancer, c. 1930 folk art seaplane unsigned as far as IIt's not all that often I purchase works by known artists, especially from the "fine arts" world, but today a few, for me embodying the beauty of a sensitive, confident, gestural line. This, as with the drawings of cats by C. Bertram Hartman, I purchased from a dealer in Cambridge, MA, and this one, though unsigned, I know is by William L'Engle (American, 1884 1957), c. 1930, its subject a Martha Graham dancer. (Timely, as the Martha Graham company is