Lennart Johnson's Nice Old Color Chart with Adhered Strips, No. 2 baseball with the unusual toning to

with the unusual toning to ground beyond the frame of the portrait seeming like a soft rake of afternoon light that has come through the window to illuminate the book our young man holds in his hands

A few of the drawings in the group this came from were signed and dated 1910

but many of you responded to it by suggesting it was a post mortem photo

which was found in Massachusetts

Lennart Johnson's Nice Old Color Chart with Adhered Strips, No. 2 baseball with the unusual toning toThe second today of a pair of color charts I purchased at Brimfield, done years ago by a young Lennart Johnson, who signed both front and back of this one. I'm a sucker for color theory color wheel exercises of all sorts, but come across them less and less often these days, so I'm even more inclined to grab them when I do. I love the three dimensionality of this one, making it feel like a field of colorful flags waving in the breeze (or a mock up for