Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill beautiy Makes me want to write

Makes me want to write old fashioned letters

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

just light general wear and fairly minor paper losses to the exterior of the lid

wonderful yellow

Mirrors are taped to the backside

Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill beautiy Makes me want to writeI 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