Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Woman in Chair on Telephone sports-related including a painting of a

including a painting of a fire scene done as this one was in 1899 (he would have been 16 or so

This unusual RPPC appeals to me for a whole host of reasons-- both immediate and complex

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In his later years

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Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Woman in Chair on Telephone sports-related including a painting of aAfter buying and selling a drawing by the same artist as this one a few weeks ago, I learned that the artist was Bill Anthony, a mid 20th century artist illustrator from Virginia, examples of whose work (significantly more risque than this one, and also more absurd!) were presented in Josh Lowenfels booth at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair. (Blurb from artsy. net below.) Women in short skirts and high heels were clearly his fixation, but it's the