Striking Old Hand-painted Green on White Checkerboard Under Glass school assigment [More about Lunsford Lane here

[More about Lunsford Lane here

giving it a modernist crispness in certain contexts and and a great earthiness in others

and that "Auburn" most likely refers to Auburn

on September 22

just missing glass panes

Striking Old Hand-painted Green on White Checkerboard Under Glass school assigment [More about Lunsford Lane herePhotos really don't do justice to this one. The board itself is gorgeously painterly green gouache or watercolor on cream paper or board, with a pencil drawn outline around the perimeter, and thin black ink lines around each square. It was set in a heavy, solid wood frame (oak I think), with glass over top, and I believe used to play on this way quite a lot! The glass shows a (to my eye) wonderful pattern of surface scratching over the green (but not