Digital Art based on the work "The First Win of the White Knight", brush and ink, Washington, D.C., done in the late 1960's.original artwork by Paul A. L. Hall1/16/2004 Signed prints are available in two sizes. Click on the thumbnails below. |
This sketch was done in brush and ink. Quite often, I would go the chess
section in the daily edition of the New York Times, and set up one of the
checkmates illustrated on that page on my chess set which my father bought in
Japan when we lived there in the late 1940's. It was a hinged wooden box
with specially inlayed woods making up the board itself with a beautiful symmetrical
design using their natural colors. The chess pieces themselves were made
of carved ivory in red and white. I still have them for now, although one
of the pawns has gone missing over the years.
Somehow this one got mixed in with the Washington Period Sketch Pads, but clearly this was done back in New York during the Greenwich Village Period when I had my black and red Indian inks and my sumi brush. Unless I managed to bring an old sketch pad from the Greenwich period with me to Washington to save money. After all the two periods were only a couple of years apart. I think this one and "Excursion on a Sphere" (a premonition of my world travels, twice around the world in twenty years) might have been in the sketch pad's first pages and I used the rest of the pad to do the Washington period drawings. Either that or I did this ink and brush sketch from memory without the chess pieces or board.
Some that I did using the chess board and the New York Times were "Premonition of a Checkmate at Dawn" (a quadric), and "Checkmate of the Red King in the Mountain Rain".
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