Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post antique photos This wonderful cyanotype does invite

This wonderful cyanotype does invite filling in a backstory

The wood shows some spotting but no cracking and has a nice warm patina

Here's another that brings me pure joy (and which I''d be very glad to keep for myself)--to my eye really a perfect painting

12 1/4” t x 11” l x 5 3/8” w

with an early incarnation of the lettering still visible under the current hand-painted version

Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post antique photos This wonderful cyanotype does inviteI find the clean, bold, hand painted black letters against oyster white ground here satisfying and quite beautiful, but most of all, when I found this, I was thinking about all of the contexts in which might resonate and situations it might serve to contextualize earnestly and poignantly, and critically satirically, all. No end of possibilities. In its black against white capital lettered spareness and declarativeness, it makes me think of I Am A Man