Moody Old Blue Winter Landscape Painting on Academy Board cat lantern From the website of Shrine

From the website of Shrine Gallery

Making it even better is the notation  by young S

but otherwise he should endure for another lifetime

him with tall fishing pole

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Moody Old Blue Winter Landscape Painting on Academy Board cat lantern From the website of ShrineFound in New England, and this sure looks like a New England winter to me. And a winter landscape rendered in blues feels, after this winter especially, both formally accurate and metaphorically correct! This could use a cleaning if one is disposed that way, but I like it as it is. Oil on what looks to me to be Devoe Raynolds academy board, with partial label adhered to the back, c. 1930s or so I believe. 12 1 4" x 9 1 4". Some general soiling as