Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill brass boots Perfect distillations of gesture and

Perfect distillations of gesture and potential

which would have been used to cut leather for gloves and

and incised marks to individuate fingers

I am not certain if this flurry of ringleted girls--the style of the day--include a few different takes on "Jane

Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill brass boots Perfect distillations of gesture andI found this one in Western MA, probably not far form where it was painted I believe about 100 years ago on a school slate well older that that, with initials carved into the wood on one side. What struck me especially was the palette and gesturally painted passages of near abstraction, unusual in my experience for a folk painting on slate, and immediately making me think of Thomas Hart Benton. Also feels kind of Adirondack y. 12 3 4 x 8 3 4 and in