Completely Luminous c. 1920s-30s Oil on Wood Panel, F. Norton Genser handmade wooden figures to wind even short lengths

to wind even short lengths of filament

I'll never pass by a good turned wood salt spoon

I just love this image--taken in the very early days of the Salvation Army's existence in the United States

with a wool weft and cotton warp

just in time for spring

Completely Luminous c. 1920s-30s Oil on Wood Panel, F. Norton Genser handmade wooden figures to wind even short lengthsNo filter, as they say the sky here just glows, though there is a greater delicacy to the color, and nuance to the painting as a whole in person (there's a special quality to an oil painting on wood that seems to elude documentation). I found at an antiques shop in Maine I spotted it from a distance and it drew me like a magnet and surely that is where it was painted, c. 1920s 30s I believe. Signed by F. Norton Gesner (1876 1955), a Hartford,