Rust Colored Landscape with Waterfall, 1914 Painting with Sgraffito on Wood Panel folk art box with birds shot at 2-3 times magnification

shot at 2-3 times magnification

No box as there would not have been one

or perhaps the head of a snake

The solid black forms were printed first

I think they're quite fabulous things

Rust Colored Landscape with Waterfall, 1914 Painting with Sgraffito on Wood Panel folk art box with birds shot at 2-3 times magnificationQuite a radiant small painting, with the honey rust color of the landscape feeling even more electric as set off by the light blue sky. With a pointed tool maybe a stick, picked up on site used to scratch gestural lines into the wet paint, suggesting tall grasses or saplings sprouting up everywhere, and lending a sense of energy and motion to the whole scene. An unusual one, which packs a lot of punch for its small size Initialed HWW and dated 1910 at