1979 - 9" x 12" - India Ink, Arches paper
While at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, studying art, I became interested in the art of the European Bronze and Iron Ages. I was very curious about what the artists had been trying to express; what they were thinking; what their lives were like, obviously so different from my own. Inspiration for this ink drawing came from odd faces popping up from the top of a bronze-covered wooden bucket, the faces as part of the structure that held the handle ends to the bucket edge. There were also bronze flagons with handles in the shapes of dogs and faces, some crude, some rather realistic.
Reference:
PREHISTORIC ART, by T.G.E. Powell, Praeger World of Art Series, p. 225, 233
See Image #187, 252, ART OF THE EUROPEAN IRON AGE: A study of the elusive image by J.V.S. Megaw, Harper & Row Publishers, New York and Evanston, © 1970 by J.V.S. Megaw, First U.S. Edition