Painted Row of Loons on Long Beveled Wood Panel wooden dice and it looks to say

and it looks to say Mt

combined with these gloriously long black horsehair bristles

then as a designer for Gustavsberg

Froebel's Kindergarten used play as its engine and his Spielgaben ("play gifts") were the fuel

The piece as a whole feels a bit Viennese Secession era a la Egon Schiele

Painted Row of Loons on Long Beveled Wood Panel wooden dice and it looks to sayI found this one in mid coast Maine, where I think most likely it originated, and just love the graphicness of these four black on white loons, two of them with beaks open to the sky and if you've ever heard the call of a loon, you know what a marvelously evocative sound that is. Surely painted using a stencil, but with hand painted mustard yellow eyes and a sea foam green border around the beveled panel, which I'd think was repurposed from a piece of