Sweet c. 1920s Fred Abbott Naive Painting of Bear Mountain and Pond, with Canoe finely made wooden clothes pin The ground is a great

The ground is a great rich yellow mustard and the blacks are nice and bold

typically commissioned by wealthy foreigners and engraved with their monograms

with a wonderful sort of wildness and strength

and I've never bought an oil can

quite an elegant and refined piece

Sweet c. 1920s Fred Abbott Naive Painting of Bear Mountain and Pond, with Canoe finely made wooden clothes pin The ground is a greatA charming little painting, which a handwritten note on reverse describes as depicting (I think it reads) "Bear Mountain and Pond" (there's a bridge mentioned too) and attributes to Prof. Fred F. Abbott of Portland Maine, teacher and violin composer. I've actually found a few other examples of paintings by Abbott previously sold, including a fabulous woman with horse dated 1924, which I'd guess is about when this one was done. I love the inclusion of