James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform or other visible flaws on

or other visible flaws on the porcelain

I think it looks especially terrific filled with a couple of small flowering or berry branches

many of these pots are made for a tourist market

On the sides are loops

pleasuring kids and adults alike

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 architectural platform or other visible flaws onFrom a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929 2015), this is one of two wonderful 1991 cutout silhouette self portraits, with the features including tattooed ear and fanstastic star like wrinkles around the eye playfully rendered in black ink dots. Often recycling materials in his work, this one makes use of of a letter to Henry Fogel, Director of the Chicago Symphony, praising the