Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill beautiy Sold in the lemon gold

Sold in the lemon gold painted wooden frame I found it in

Mirrors are taped to the backside

" lending itself to functioning as a comment on all sorts of contexts and situations

There are two fine tears to the surface of the painting at lower right (running from bottom right edge and lower right edge)

wonderful yellow

Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill beautiy Sold in the lemon goldI found this one in Western MA, probably not far form where it was painted I believe about 100 years ago on a school slate well older that that, with initials carved into the wood on one side. What struck me especially was the palette and gesturally painted passages of near abstraction, unusual in my experience for a folk painting on slate, and immediately making me think of Thomas Hart Benton. Also feels kind of Adirondack y. 12 3 4 x 8 3 4 and in