Wilfrid R. Addey

Wilfrid R. Addey made spare, ink-and-watercolor snapshots of mid-century America. His sheet shows a late-1940s pin-up in a purple bikini with a lit cigarette, quick lines catching the pose and the glow of a club lamp. Flip to his other sheet to watch a racing car punch through a finish-line banner or scan his city crane scene, all sharp angles and wet washes.

Slide over to the 1950 drawing of a chrome-finned American car, chrome gleams like wet metal under his nib.