Wonderful, Impressionistic Oil on Linen Rough and Rocky Seascape teacups murals by Dows are permanent

murals by Dows are permanent fixtures in post offices in Hyde Park and Rhinebeck

I've started paying some attention to ships in bottles

made in Portland in 1924

All carved from one piece of wood

though there are a fair number of small gilded cast bronze animals out there-- Japanese and Chinese

Wonderful, Impressionistic Oil on Linen Rough and Rocky Seascape teacups murals by Dows are permanentIf I saw this painting in a museum, I would covet it; I think it is just fantastic, veering into the realm of pure, painterly abstraction, but at the same time perfectly capturing the power and vastness of rough sea. The unusual vertical orientation evinces a sense of strata, all with equal intensity, from the water crashing against rocks, to a glimpse of what I assume is sky (and a curious, intense sky at that) to layers upon layers of choppy sea in