Details
Framed: 614 x 1514 in. (15.9 x 38.7 cm.)
Provenance
Greg Berry, Westminster Station, Vermont
Milly McGehee, Baltimore
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, 6 October 2012, lot 616
Literature
Maine Antique Digest (December 2012), p. 24-B, illustrated.
Emelie Gevalt, “Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art and Culture,” American Insights, ed. Lisa Minardi (Philadelphia, 2024), p. 253, fig. 11, illustrated.
Exhibited
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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As Emelie Gevalt explains, “The objective of many board games was to reach ‘home’…Images of home took on newly sentimental meanings in the nineteenth century, as the domestic sphere was increasingly identified with ideals of femininity, the nurturing of childhood, and cultures of material comfort” (2024, p. 253).

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