WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Sold including the private collection of

including the private collection of Bill and Melinda Gates

living in Mayfair

the marquetry and gilt-bronze mounts are of the highest quality

The vase signed "Gallé" lower right and having a ground pontil mark to the base

WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Sold including the private collection ofA important American Impressionist painting by Isabella Howland (1895 1974), "Ocho Rios", Jamaica, 1940. Howland was active in both Boston & New York, this impressionistic painting depicts locals washing laundry in a river located in Ocho Rios (Spanish for Eight Rivers) Jamaica. The painting shows six brightly clothed figures by a river washing clothing, the short yet decisive linear brush stokes are applied in the impasto manner, the rest of the