Much Loved Xacto Knife Box & Blades fun drawing edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-michael-cohen-11754

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including the suitor

I believe this load-bearing character is based on Tevye

25" wide at largest

Much Loved Xacto Knife Box & Blades fun drawing edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-michael-cohen-11754Maybe it's just me, but I find this battered vintage X ACTO knife box, with its dense pattern of cuts and wounds, terrifically beautiful. If anything ever had a warm patina, this would be it, and knowing that it came from the estate of a very prolific artist makes it easy to imagine that the trusty set of tools inside have lived a very active life. I. especially love the yellow painted square with the X ACTO man graphic in the left corner, persisting