Wailing Diva, c. 1920s-30s Naive Graphite and Color Pencil Drawing on 19th c. Ledger Paper salor 9 1/4" x 6 1/2"

9 1/4" x 6 1/2"

This toy is the first of two versions produced by Girard Toys (the logo is features on the men's overalls

One side shows rich orange fire clouding

one of which is readable the other not so much

where there were some notables Lanes

Wailing Diva, c. 1920s-30s Naive Graphite and Color Pencil Drawing on 19th c. Ledger Paper salor 9 1/4" x 6 1/2"This is one of five drawings on ledger paper I am listing, all found together, with some 19th c. writing on some of the pages, but the drawings done a few decades later, I'm guessing 1920s or 30s, when a kid, or a couple of them, got a hold of the ledger. I love this solitary wailing diva (she looks very operatic to me) set against the gridded lines of the ledger, with the bold pink center line cutting straight across her waist. And the erasures made