Sweet c. 1920s Fred Abbott Naive Painting of Bear Mountain and Pond, with Canoe botanical These are the sorts of

These are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from--completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war-time dramas at miniature scale

Shame and disgrace attend vice

surely there is a punk out there past or present who needs this one

cream paint on the shaking hands

Sweet c. 1920s Fred Abbott Naive Painting of Bear Mountain and Pond, with Canoe botanical These are the sorts ofA charming little painting, which a handwritten note on reverse describes as depicting (I think it reads) "Bear Mountain and Pond" (there's a bridge mentioned too) and attributes to Prof. Fred F. Abbott of Portland Maine, teacher and violin composer. I've actually found a few other examples of paintings by Abbott previously sold, including a fabulous woman with horse dated 1924, which I'd guess is about when this one was done. I love the inclusion of