Eric Thake 'Airlines Resume' - Collected by Murray abstract art Reminiscent of days spent sprawled

Reminiscent of days spent sprawled on the beach

'all was quiet' 2007

while a whirling dervish tops a table in the background

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Signed: signed

Eric Thake 'Airlines Resume' - Collected by Murray abstract art Reminiscent of days spent sprawledFrom 1941, modernist Eric Thake began sending his friends hand designed Christmas cards. By 1975, he moved from linocuts to offset lithographs, his eyesight beginning to fail. Sharply observed nonetheless, these cards still speak to Thakes inner world and perspective on life, with this particular work sent to his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Airlines Resume is hand signed and inscribed to Hoff. It represents the last of Thakes