This is a pencil and Sharpie sketch of a child bending down to pick up the donuts of a toss game. It measures 3 1/2"x4" by sight and is unsigned. It is framed and matted under glass and is in very good condition. On the back is a card that reads "Emerson: Year One, drawings by Hilary VonJoo, January 15-February 26, 2016." This refers to an exhibition at the Archival Gallery in Sacramento which has this note about it on their website "The Archival Gallery is proud to present a celebration of a baby's first year featuring drawings done by his mother, artist hilary VonJoo. The artist drew her son every few days for his first year and the result is a poignant exhibition celebrating the first year of life." A review by the Sacramento News & Revies reads:
"As a young adult, artist Hilary VonJoo wasn’t planning on having children. But after she got married, she knew familial expansion was the right move. And the first year of her firstborn, Emerson, is the subject of VonJoo’s show at Archival Gallery.
VonJoo’s line drawings are delicate yet assertive, suggesting movement, compassion and a twinkle of magic. She said A Year of Emerson was actually the idea of Archival owner D. Neath and her husband, who are longtime friends of the artist (VonJoo also works as a framer at the shop). She said it was challenging squeezing in drawing an infant during her initiation into motherhood, but she soon figured out a way to regularly catalog his growth with her pen, and she plans to keep on drawing."