SOLD George Stimmel (1880-1964) Very Pink Stage Set, Gouache on Cardboard Painting newspaper lined box Connecticut

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and I am really rather obsessed with it

together with the geometries

Iit has been loosely sewn onto a thin cardboard cutout backing

and all the better for the white circles and black numbers of their tops

SOLD George Stimmel (1880-1964) Very Pink Stage Set, Gouache on Cardboard Painting newspaper lined box ConnecticutI paid no attention to the signature on this little gouache on cardboard painting when I found it, but searching for G. Stimmel quickly turned up George Stimmel, 1880 1964, a painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer who was born in New Jersey and educated at the Pratt Institute of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Stimmel went on to work as a set designer at the Metropolitan Opera and was a member of the Scenic Artists Union which