Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder vintage mask 11 1/8" x 9 1/8"

11 1/8" x 9 1/8" x 1"

A great rattle to have in hand on New Year's Eve

but this is one I would wear all of the time--on a lapel

this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds

the buttons down the front of his jacket

Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder vintage mask 11 1/8" x 9 1/8"It doesn't take a whole lot to sell me on a naive 19th century painting with sheep and a sheepherder in it, but with this one it it's the ultra lush landscape that really does it for me. And the stylized treatment and super rich color of those trees and hills, river and sky actually made me think immediately of the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry (apt as I found this en route to Kansas City) to come many years later. To my eye,