Bill Anthony Mid-Century Ink Drawing: Two Women Seated on Brick Wall
After 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 simultaneous attention paid to faces and outfits and postures and gestures and hairstyles that endears these to me, which is especially true in this one--and to my eye these two women, staring right back at us, look as though, twenty years or so later, they will be most definitely be running the boardroom! 14 x 8 1/16". Ink on lightweight board, very good condition, with a little corner wear. *** 6 Inspiring Outsider Artists You Should Know, Scott Indrisek, Jan 18, 2019: Bill Anthony, Joshua Lowenfels Works of Art “He’s an up-skirt guy,” joked the