This a fascinating painting I found at the Carlton Arms Hotel (160 E 25th Street). It’s one of the work of the series called “Ghosts” by Helen Oliver Adelson. Looking at this painting I see a woman. I feel like she used three different ways mixed together to draw this: linear technique (her clothes), anatomy elements on her face, and a human being regular look (her hair, her eyes and her arm, except for fingers). The woman in the painting looks like she has something on her mind by the way her fingers are locked and the crafty look she’s having. I got an impression from her that she is kind of old by looking at her thinned out lips an the cheek bones. The dress that she wears tells us that she lived some time back in 1800’s, and looks like that would be a great panting to hang in a mansion or a palace.

The colors in the painting are not the brightest, sort of mellow. It’s in a way giving me a mood of simplicity yet to see the ghost better by giving it brighter colors and make it look more colorful which helps emphasize the idea of the painting.

I liked the drawing because it is an unusual way to portray ghosts. I also liked the expressions that a viewer like me gets. I would buy this drawing for its originality. I think that the artist did a great job creating not only this one drawing but have a whole series of it.