Playing Checkers

Cut by W. E. Watson, Jr, New Bedford, MA as a "Puzzle for Big Folks" @1909.  Solid wood, color line cut.  Wonderful empathetic Black scene by Harry Roseland in an era where nearly all comparable artwork demeaned Blacks.  Harry Herman Roseland (c. 1867—1950) was one of the most notable painters of the genre painting school around the turn of the 20th century.  An American, Roseland was primarily known for paintings centered on poor African-Americans. Roseland was largely self-taught, and never traveled to Europe to study art. Wikipedia