SOLD William L'Engle (1884-1957) Large Graphite Sketch of Martha Graham Dancer, c. 1930 naive antique drawing This particular copy has an

This particular copy has an interesting provenance

and features lined pages for the front section with alphabetical tabs

What I'm not entirely sure of is the nature of the original being photographed--looks to me like an earlier hand-painted tintype

made for the tourist trade--is very fine

My guess is that it is a mitering tool of some sort

SOLD William L'Engle (1884-1957) Large Graphite Sketch of Martha Graham Dancer, c. 1930 naive antique drawing This particular copy has anIt'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