Antique Oil on Canvas Rock of Ages Folk Art Painting little folk art carving fairly close to the surface

fairly close to the surface

Pretty fabulous I think

This is a wonderfully nuanced vintage Zanesville Stoneware Company (Ohio) ribbed round planter

4 3/8" long

it came from a sketchbook of her drawings from that time--when she was teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division

Antique Oil on Canvas Rock of Ages Folk Art Painting little folk art carving fairly close to the surfaceThis super folky painting is in far from from perfect shape, but I think it's so great I don't care. And, actually, in this case I think it's wounds here and there amid the rocks and choppy waters rather add to its effect! Ive just leaned (my ignorance) that the image is referred to as Rock of Ages, coming from a Christian hymn written in 1763, when a reverend from Somerset was caught in a storm, and found refuge in a gap in the gorge he was walking