Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder vintage mask ) l especially love the

) l especially love the hatch-carved detail of the frame

which I don't think detract at all

square corners

this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds

many of these date from the 1940s

Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder vintage mask ) l especially love theIt 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,