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The most popular board game of the 1930s began as an inspiration of writer, actor, political activist and anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie, who created the Landlord Gamein 1903 as an educational tool. Players traveled around a square board, hoping to…

About the Artist: Born in Milwaukee, WI, Schardt studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League in New York. His works were exhibited at the Federal Gallery and the Municipal Art Gallery. Beginning in the 1935 Schardt began…

Screenshot from Henry Selick's animated film Coraline (2009) shows the bored protagonist, wandering around a new home to which her family has relocated, momentarily intrigued by her mother's souvenir snow globe. It plays an important role later in…

Anchel’s lithograph is a perceptive depiction of an urban recreational space, which has numerous activities occurring around its focal point that create a dynamic of movement and energy. In the distance, tall buildings provide the backdrop for a…

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A crowd of young faces steal the spotlight in Children’s Theatre. The children are energetic, with several of them seemingly unable to sit still. The lively group is separated by rows of seats, which adds containment to the otherwise hectic scene.…

Ballet Dancer No. 4 is a lithograph depicting a ballerina in motion, her upper body bent towards the ground, with most of her weight placed on her right leg. The other leg is bent at the knee and propped up on a platform of some kind. Most…

In Monsters, white contour lines curve around humanoid figures. One figure is leaf shaped, stretching from the print’s top left corner to the bottom right. This leaf resembles a human face, with eyes, eyebrows, and even forehead lines at the top, a…

In The Postman, a seated man and his instrument take up most of the print. His clothes indicate that he is, indeed, a postman, but his identity as a musician comes first here. His instrument appears to be almost the size of his upper body, and it…

A group of men works together, repairing at least two nets used to catch fish. All the men in this painting are either bent over or facing away from the viewer. Very little individual detail is shown. It seems that the fishermen are in a rural…