Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot curve which Amish dolls typically do

which Amish dolls typically do not

possibly a stair post

Overall size is 14" by 11 1/4" with the area that holds the photo measuring 7" by 4 1/2"

This may be my favorite of the lot--a bit unassuming on the outside

Army Men Playing Chess, Vintage Snapshot curve which Amish dolls typically doI can't look at a chess board without thinking of Duchamp, my personal favorite artist thinker ever, and so I have a particular fondness for images of chess games in progress, embodying strategic minds at work. I think the framing on this snapshot is so good, with the bent knees, and elbows too, of these men pointing straight toward the corners of the board. And it seems just right that they should be in what look to me like army greens, with chess