Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post old wooden holder which attach to the wire

which attach to the wire on one of the bulls

making them feel more aligned with Scherenschnitte (finely cut paper silhouettes)

and just some fraying around the edges of the pages

Definitely among my favorite folk art frames that I've found

Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post old wooden holder which attach to the wireI 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