This sheet of sketches was folded in half, most likely by Rothko, given that the orientation of the drawings on the left side of the sheet is opposite to the orientation of the drawings on the right side. The upside-down drawing at the lower right on this sheet—depicting a small figure, possibly a boy, playing paddleball—shares a subject with an untitled oil painting from this period (fig. 1). Paddleball is a single-player game utilizing a small rubber ball attached with elastic string to a hard racket; the game was developed in the 1920s and enjoyed popularity throughout the 1930s and beyond.