Marvelous 1929 Ink and Watercolor Drawing, Man with Goatee watercolor forest I'm not really sure whether

I'm not really sure whether to call this penny covered bottle folk art or tramp art or just plain crafty

focusing on the presentation of illusions--like this card trick--that he had devised

I do think it was made very much in the tradition of antique carved folk art dolls

and also perhaps the contented look on his face

it also seems that the figures represent different cultures—some seem South American

Marvelous 1929 Ink and Watercolor Drawing, Man with Goatee watercolor forest I'm not really sure whetherI'm pretty obsessed with this small drawing painting, and a very similar companion drawing of three women, including for the fact that I really can't pin them down. I know that they came from a portfolio of drawings dated 1929; this one is dated 4 4 29, and another from the same group is signed JK (or perhaps KJ). The elegant, lyrical, definitely Art Deco influenced graphic style in which this goatee d man is rendered reminds me of the watercolors of