SOLD George Stimmel (1880-1964) Very Pink Stage Set, Gouache on Cardboard Painting newspaper lined box and I am really rather

and I am really rather obsessed with it

and all the better for the white circles and black numbers of their tops

These continued to be produced for some years I believe

And this great long legged girl with her pink top and yellow pants and spade and and hoe and I'm not sure what at the end of her orange glove

Iit has been loosely sewn onto a thin cardboard cutout backing

SOLD George Stimmel (1880-1964) Very Pink Stage Set, Gouache on Cardboard Painting newspaper lined box and I am really ratherI paid no attention to the signature on this little gouache on cardboard painting when I found it, but searching for G. Stimmel quickly turned up George Stimmel, 1880 1964, a painter, printmaker, illustrator and designer who was born in New Jersey and educated at the Pratt Institute of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Stimmel went on to work as a set designer at the Metropolitan Opera and was a member of the Scenic Artists Union which