Dark brown pen-and-ink sketches of three black women in profile by Augusta Oelschig, each signed in pencil by A. Oelschig in the lower portion. 10½x7¼" paper folded into four sections (only three sections used), tipped-in on card-stock backing with archival paper tape on upper margins, plus other loose laid down matting.

Augusta Denk Oelschig (1918-2000) is an important artist of the twentieth century. She is best known for her local scenes of everyday people, political works, and spiritually charged abstractions. She was one of the first students enrolled at Armstrong College when it opened in 1935. Later, she attended the University of Georgia studying under Lamar Dodd, and then with well-known American painter Henry Lee McFee in Savannah. In 1972, she received a commission for a mural depicting the history of Savannah for the New Home Federal Bank in Telfair Square, which took three years to complete. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and art galleries, including the famous 1980 exhibition "The Artist in the Park" at the Hirschl and Adler Gallery in New York.