Art, Symbol & Imagination
First Drawing: The Figure against the Tree
An elongated human figure leans against a great tree trunk with one arm stretched along its bark. Bare angular branches and a dark lower hollow give the body an uncanny setting. Smith’s opening drawing introduces the unstable relation between a person and an imagined world in Fantazius Mallare.
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Wallace Smith. "First Drawing: The Figure against the Tree" [printed contents title]. In Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath, Ben Hecht; drawings by Wallace Smith. 1922 supplied edition, 1922, Covici-McGee. Source scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/smith-fantazius-first-drawing
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Wallace Smith. First Drawing: The Figure against the Tree. Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath. Scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/smith-fantazius-first-drawing