A large pencil figure drawing of exceptional focus on the upper back and nape — the hair pinned or gathered upward, exposing the full back of the neck and the ear. The ear, in the back-three-quarter view, is the most specifically described element: the outer helix, the antihelix, the earlobe — the Cothran ear-attention brought to a back view where the ear is exposed by the upswept hair.
The hair above the ear is gathered in a voluminous upswept arrangement — the marks following the hair's direction from the nape upward to the crown, the gathering indicated with specific knot-like marks at the center.
The back below the nape is described with confident pencil contour: the shoulder blades, the spine descending, the waist beginning below. The back is drawn as pure form — the attention to the ear and the nape creating an unusual emphasis on this transitional zone between head and body.
This back view with the upswept hair and exposed ear is the most ear-focused drawing in the collection — the ear drawn with the same sustained attention that it receives in the portrait profiles.