Lennart Johnson's Vintage Color Chart with Adhered Painted Strips gift for kids collector and friend in Rockport

collector and friend in Rockport MA

and a paintbrush

I believe most likely English and dating to the 1700s

resourcefully made of cigar box wood and exuberantly painted in a yellow grid with graphite drawn front door (and tiny clock overhead) and window panes

Lennart Johnson's Vintage Color Chart with Adhered Painted Strips gift for kids collector and friend in RockportI'm a sucker for color theory color wheel exercises of all sorts, but come across them less and less often these days, so I'm even more inclined to grab them when I do. I love the three dimensionality of this one, making it feel like a field of colorful flags waving in the breeze (or a mock up for an installation, a la Christo and Jeanne Claude's golden Gates, but in a rainbow spectrum!) Signed Jonson in pencil at lower right, and then again Lennart