Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug as well as terrific in

as well as terrific in a farmhouse

and just what it is

I've found a few online with the same shape and structure

but now they are just three

Helen Malta, Pink Mermaid, Color Pencil Drawing, 1930s fun fug as well as terrific inI keep thinking this mermaid drawing would make a pretty great tattoo! It comes from sketchbook of drawings by Helen Malta, done in the 1930s or so, while she teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division. Surely it is based on an old carving, maybe a figurehead from a ship, and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum. Malta's work, which also included paintings and prints, is found