Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder faceted vase The sampler

The sampler

and Carola Giedion-Welcker--but

3" in diameter

due to the stigmata piercing the palm of the hand

Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder faceted vase The samplerIt 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,