signed in graphite Osgood (on reverse); together with original wood checkers game pieces
Framed: 21 x 10³⁄₄ in. (53.3 x 27.3 cm.)

Frances Moore ''Patty'' Gagarin, Southport, Connecticut

"Winning Moves: Painted Gameboards of North America", The American Folk Art Museum (New York, 1984), exhibition poster.
Bruce and Doranna Wendel, Gameboards of North America (New York, The American Folk Art Museum, 1986), p. 29, illustrated.
Robert Bishop and Jacqueline Atkins, Folk Art in American Life (New York, The American Folk Art Museum, 1995), p. 99, no. 136, illustrated.

New York, The American Folk Art Museum (formerly The Museum of American Folk Art), Winning Moves: Painted Gameboards of North America, 14 December 1984-3 March 1985, no. 57.
New York, The American Folk Art Museum (formerly The Museum of American Folk Art), Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture¸ 13 September 2024-26 January 2025.

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"A tin box to hold the checkers is attached to the board with its exuberant decoration of sun, moon, and stars" (1986, p. 29).