The story behind it is a peg-legged shoe cobbler. A piece of local lore that worked its way into the drawing as LOTS OF SHOES FOR SALE and the figure in heavy boots.
From there, the rest of the world shows up the way it tends to in Cronin's work. News, sport, history, the noise of a given week, all landing on the page next to the story that started it.
Signed Ra Cronin, lower right. The Shoe is held in a private collection alongside two other Cronin works owned by the same collector.
