Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape clay marbles What I know about Charles

What I know about Charles Rabin is that he did not begin painting until he was 70 (with paints left over from a paint by numbers kit)

There is a long tradition of Zuni earthenware owl fetishes

and the whisk broom older than that

I've become quite a fan of late 19th century punch paper embroideries

Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape clay marbles What I know about CharlesA nicely painterly view of meandering stream and tall trees and distant hills here, but really it is all about these dogs! I could look at those soulful faces all day, and then again tomorrow; what a marvelously expressive pair, super folky but quite regal at once. I purchased this one from a dealer in Tennessee, and it looks like it is signed at lower right, but the ground is so dark it is difficult to make out. Earlyish 20th century I would guess,