Bauhaus Era Gunther Wagner Oil Crayons in Original Wood Box captioned illustration and the top

and the top

I really love the painting on this skinny penguin

terminating in those wonderfully clunky little feet with incised toes

as with the two "captive" rings on the stem of this one

it feels quite tender and poignant as well as wonderfully strange

Bauhaus Era Gunther Wagner Oil Crayons in Original Wood Box captioned illustration and the topI love finding beautiful, still usable old art supplies, carrying with them an unknowable but surely brilliant (!) history of use, as well as a future full of possibility. Based on the logo, these Gunther Wagner oil crayons in great wooden original box date to sometime prior to the late 1930s, and I'd think more likely sometime late ish 1910s 20s. I of course like to imagine this set was used by a student at the Bauhaus, somehow ultimately finding its