Marion Adolf's c. 1970s Gouache on Paper Color Studies, Sold Individually asian man making it easy to rotate

making it easy to rotate to remove whatever coins one might drop inside

The text appears to read:  Who first comes to this world below

carving itself is about 1" wide and deep

The cover is faded and shows wear around the edges and there are pencil markings on a few pages and on the inside cover

Marion Adolf's c. 1970s Gouache on Paper Color Studies, Sold Individually asian man making it easy to rotateI just can't resist a vintage art school color theory exercise, and strong gouache painted color delivered with precision is pretty hard to beat. Four examples here, c. 1970s the first three completed with handwritten text labels ("analogous colors", "split complementary", etc) and protective paper laid over top, attached with masking tape to the reverses. The fourth appears perhaps to have been a first stab at what became the third (letter C) with no