James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 pin pillow is in excellent condition (the

is in excellent condition (the wood is just gorgeous

and was honored with a retrospective  at Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2002

but no chips or cracks

3 3/4" wide x 2 1/2" deep x 3 1/8" tall (4 1/8" tall including leather pull

and despite being made of clay

James Bone Self-Portrait With Tattooed Ear, 1991 pin pillow is in excellent condition (theFrom 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