Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed ratchet gears and then this big hand

and then this big hand holding his trumpet to his mouth with tassels like teardrops painted in this perfect blue hanging from it

Simple hand-sewn string binding is still holding tight

and the loop end is perfect for hanging from a nail

Or give it a good clean with some butcher block cleaner and use it for serving cheese and crackers

The form of the boots and manner of carving is quite akin to naively carved wooden boots I have occasionally found

Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed ratchet gears and then this big handThe back of this painting is signed and a signature is scratched into the paint on the front right corner too, but I can't clearly read either. What first drew me to the painting is that wonderful passage of colorful strips at center, which I take for a bolster or perhaps a blanket running along the back of a platform sofa or day bed. But then it's all the details that make it really sweet the vessels lined up on the shelf above those stripes, the one