Row Houses, Three Styles, c. 1940s Acrylic on Board Painting, Presumed Allentown PA vintage color study Also on the reverse

Also on the reverse

All pretty minor

the 1858 patent date on the face

and signed what looks to me to be R

2" x 15/16" x 1/2"

Row Houses, Three Styles, c. 1940s Acrylic on Board Painting, Presumed Allentown PA vintage color study Also on the reverseThe dealer I purchased this painting from had just pulled it out of an estate and thought the block pictured was likely in Allentown, PA. I don't know, but seems very plausibly a portrait of a block in a historic Allentown neighborhood, with a very pleasing mix of architectural styles represented. Quite precisely and painstakingly rendered, down to every brick on that Victorian perhaps an art design architecture school exercise, but if so executed