This is a 8 1/2 x 5 inch mixed media(ink & crayon or watercolor) drawing of a lamp post with a base of a woman. It is a whimsical, slightly surreal image.    It was done by Newark, N.J. artist Adolf Konrad around the 1960s or 1970s. Konrad sometimes employs a slightly surreal image such as this.The drawing is in  excellent condition. See the above condition report as well as the photos. It is not signed. It has an estate stamp verso. The photos tell the story.  It will be shipped for 12 via USPS. 

    Born in Bremen in 1915, Germany, Adolf Konrad became an American Scene painter who settled in Newark, Morristown and then Asbury, New Jersey. Konrad was influenced most philosophically by by Georgio De Chirico. He was a student of Bernard Gussow and was a teacher at The Newark School of Fine & Industrial Art. He is well-known for having created some of the most compelling and charming paintings of Newark as well as subtle surreal scenes involving landscape, women, musicians and architecture. He is one of New Jersey's finest painters in the last 80 years. His work is in museums, corporate collections and private collections. He died in 2003.