Work on Paper by Mark Westervelt: Little Chickie

Tiny orange-nosed figure in a patched jacket stands before a smudged white rectangle.

This work on paper is by Little Chickie, and is ca. 2012. It is paint on paper. Mark Westervelt is an American painter trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the University of Chicago, whose work has come to include a variety of mediums over his career. Roughly central, a small figure with a speckled head and a red and orange nose wears a shoulder piece of rust and cream scraps. Black looped lines trace arms and legs over a smudged blue-white panel. Faint monogram below. It is 6 inches wide and 7 high.

A small face with a big red nose and no regrets.