Completely Luminous c. 1920s-30s Oil on Wood Panel, F. Norton Genser man with hat extending as if offering two

extending as if offering two hands to shake

dramatic and elusive

filled front to back with striking cut paper works

I found this and a second watercolor of the same family together

Figure himself and existing box are in very good shape

Completely Luminous c. 1920s-30s Oil on Wood Panel, F. Norton Genser man with hat extending as if offering twoNo filter, as they say the sky here just glows, though there is a greater delicacy to the color, and nuance to the painting as a whole in person (there's a special quality to an oil painting on wood that seems to elude documentation). I found at an antiques shop in Maine I spotted it from a distance and it drew me like a magnet and surely that is where it was painted, c. 1920s 30s I believe. Signed by F. Norton Gesner (1876 1955), a Hartford,