Three years ago, I wrote a piece about the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky, and titled the piece “Still Drawing After All These Years” (a version of the piece later appeared on the New Yorker’s website). Had I updated the piece last month I could’ve easily revived that same title. You see, Kovarsky, at 97 was still drawing. What you see here is his very last, drawn on May 27th, five days before he passed away; the drawing is one of many his family refers to as the Market Gauge series. His daughter Gina recently told me:
“My mom [the actress Lucille Patton] would place the Market Gauge graph page in front of dad and before you knew it, he would be absorbed in total concentration, pen in hand, finding these odd-looking fellows who had been hiding inside the graphs. It was quite amazing to see him be so immersed in drawing no matter what else was going on. It really sustained him until almost the very end.”
Below: Anatol Kovarsky working on a Market Gauge drawing. Market Gauge drawing & photo courtesy of the Kovarsky family
