A full-length standing figure in ink on warm cream paper — the most extreme narrow-vertical format in the collection: 5.25 inches wide by 15 inches tall, an aspect ratio of nearly 1 to 3. The figure stands in left profile, the face described with the nose in profile and a brief profile line, the hair at the crown in a compact bun. The body below is drawn with the characteristic single-contour approach, the ink marks forming the outer edge of the figure from crown to feet. The body's width at the hips approaches the paper's full 5.25 inch width, the figure pressed into its extreme container.
The 5.25 by 15 format is the most radical exploration of the narrow-vertical figure format in the portfolio — more extreme than the 9.5 by 25 strips, more extreme than the 6.5 by 14.25 chalk figure. At this width, the figure can barely turn in profile without exceeding the paper's edges: the tipped position of the hips relative to the shoulders, the arm positions, all must be chosen to fit within 5.25 inches. The format imposes a specific posture: the figure must stand with minimal lateral extension, the body essentially a column.
The ink on warm cream paper gives the extreme narrow figure the same warm quality as the cream-paper ink portraits, the figure reading as a vertical stroke of warm ink against a slightly warmer ground. This is figure drawing as typography — the body reduced to a single vertical stroke, the figure as mark.