- William Halsey
- Game, 1983
- oil on masonite panel
- 35.25 x 47.25 in
Game for Three was the result of an empty lot in a slummy section of Charleston. I passed the lot often. In the summer it was hot, dry, and full of weeds and trash. Children played there; they played with total absorption, obliviously squatting in the dirt. The game could have been marbles; it could have been tic-tac-toe or just drawing in the dirt.
Game for Three is not, however, a social statement; it is a statement about any child anywhere, playing any game. Beyond that it is a painting concerned with color, shapes, with positive and negative space. It means whatever the viewers see in it and want it to mean.
- Collections: South Carolina Arts Commission State Art Collection
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