James Bone "Falling Atoms" Black Ink Drawing, 1957 watercolor landscape chocolates

chocolates

likely where a mirror once sat

I have seen a few other San Pacific ceramic vases from the 70s-80s

And it looks great stacked with a bunch of other boxes

and the super straight whiskers on either side above it

James Bone "Falling Atoms" Black Ink Drawing, 1957 watercolor landscape chocolatesThis charming 1957 black ink on paper drawing by James Frederic Bone (1929 2015) exemplifies the sort of playfulness and inventiveness that ran throughout his work, very often haunted by a sense of melancholy or bittersweetness as I think is the case here. I must say, the more time I spend looking at and thinking about Bone's work, the more gravity I am finding in it in this case including literally, as these star like atoms (electrons?) exit their