Lewis Smith Caboose, Ink and Crayon on Graham Cracker Box Cardboard ragball Smiley attended the Dalton School

Smiley attended the Dalton School in New York

extremely durable

The perimeter edge was trimmed but not stitched down

making this is a perfect gift for a favorite chef

and the version of the can rendered 1960s or so

Lewis Smith Caboose, Ink and Crayon on Graham Cracker Box Cardboard ragball Smiley attended the Dalton SchoolOne more often sees Lewis Smith's drawings of women boxers and wrestlers and diners, but the first love of the the self taught Ohio artist (1907 1988) was trains, the subject of his earliest, very detailed drawings, dating to the 1920s and it was a lifetime railroad pass that allowed him to travel beyond the family farm in rural Ohio to pursue his other subjects. He returned to the train in this later work, c. 1980s I believe, ink and crayon on