Clifford M. Guptill's Sublime 1910 Lubec, Maine Folk Art Glass Windowed Barn in Perfect Paint folk art chalkware with many mediums using methods

with many mediums using methods of swallowing and regurgitating cheesecloth

two sides white with black or dark blue letters or numbers

Whether this monk achieved sainthood I am not entirely sure

and Vassar College Museum

Clifford M. Guptill's Sublime 1910 Lubec, Maine Folk Art Glass Windowed Barn in Perfect Paint folk art chalkware with many mediums using methodsIf I were to imagine the purest expression of a folk art architectural structure I could, this would be it. And very happily, it was accompanied by a card identifying its maker, Clifford M. Guptill, of Lubec, Maine (the easternmost municipality in the contiguous U. S.) who constructed it at the Lubec Lifesaving Station in 1910. (I've included a 1905 photo of that station found online; perhaps our Clifford is one of the men standing beside it!) All