Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman as there is old grout

as there is old grout around the perimeter

but has a great presence

Image size 16 1/4" x 11 3/4"

with the donkey clearly in control--giving the whole thing added resonance at this particular political moment

which would certainly make a fabulous wedding present

Satisfying Minimalist 1989 Crock Study, Watercolor on Board carved portrait of woman as there is old groutTo my eye this "crock study" quite transcends itself as a study (an art school exercise I might guess), and I'm really rather obsessed with it as very resolved feeling, minimalist sort of a painting, which manages to impart this large pottery crock with a wonderfully stoic sense of force and grandeur. The squareness of the bottom of the crock above what I take for the ledge of a table seems to strip it of illusionism and makes the painting itself a