SOLD George Stimmel (1880-1964) Very Pink Stage Set, Gouache on Cardboard Painting pompoms Japan in the 1950s

Japan in the 1950s

clicks and pops

8 3/16" x 5 1/4" x 11/16" and in very good condition

Then on the inside of the front cover is written the name of its owner

I've lately been having fantasies of a huge antique wooden desk with lots of surface for all sorts of old school desk accessories

SOLD George Stimmel (1880-1964) Very Pink Stage Set, Gouache on Cardboard Painting pompoms Japan in the 1950sI 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