Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post duncan's yoyo 9 3/4" t x 4

9 3/4" t x 4 1/2" and in very good condition

7" x 4 7/16" and in very good condition

top flap has torn loose

) Also written are a series of names

long neglected house

Men Working, c. 1940s Hand-painted Hardboard Sign on Wooden Post duncan's yoyo 9 3/4" t x 4I 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