Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill brass boots and I think the bottle

and I think the bottle would have been made to hold beer or ginger beer

locking it very tightly so that ink could never escape

Perfect distillations of gesture and potential

and incised marks to individuate fingers

Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill brass boots and I think the bottleI 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