Landscape with Gate, Charming Old Folk Art Oil Painting in Gold Frame turning wheel stencil The chunk of wood still

The chunk of wood still attached the back makes him appear to be carrying around the weight of the world

but it is so worth it

with a forged metal blade held to the wooden body with two tangs

it writes from everywhere

So Japanese--maybe 1980s or so

Landscape with Gate, Charming Old Folk Art Oil Painting in Gold Frame turning wheel stencil The chunk of wood stillA little gem of a folk painting I think, better in person the combination of blue and green and white really do it for me, and I love that the gate is neat dead center, a threshold just waiting to be crossed. And the painterly bands of white to either side of it, though I guess representing a stone wall, seem as if suggesting a flock of sheep lined up waiting to be released! Initialed at lower right and framed as found, in an old gold painted frame