SOLD Antique Oil on Wood Panel Painting of Forest with Boater and Fallen Trees dentis pencil and colored pencil on

pencil and colored pencil on lined paper

1 inch in diameter

I've since learned  these types of fertility figures are made by the Sambura people of Kenya and that she is probably just a couple of decades old

I vividly remember visiting Skansen—an open-air museum and zoo in Stockholm dedicated to showing the traditional Swedish way of life prior to industrialization—on a cold and rainy day fall day several years ago

SOLD Antique Oil on Wood Panel Painting of Forest with Boater and Fallen Trees dentis pencil and colored pencil onNothing I love more than an old oil painting on wood panel, and I've got a particular penchant for folk art paintings featuring fallen trees here two that read almost like railroad tracks crossing the waterfall on the diagonal, giving this bucolic landscape a bit of an edge and amplifying the sense of nature as a vastly more powerful force than our little rowing boater at left or the tiny flying ducks at bottom right. And, over time, the texture of