SOLD Antique Folk Art Oil on Canvas with Shored Boat and Disappearing Sky group portrait signed and dated at lower

signed and dated at lower right

hammer throw

with one arm forever raised

quintessential example of Penobscot basketry

and think the double star design here

SOLD Antique Folk Art Oil on Canvas with Shored Boat and Disappearing Sky group portrait signed and dated at lowerQuite poetic I think, the way the sky here has chipped away, exposing the canvas beneath and in so doing pointing to the fiction inherent in all representation. Just right for an image of a docked, or washed up, row boat too, with human nowhere in view; time passes, trees fall, people and things disappear. 10" x 8" . Paint loss as evident but quite stable, no more chipping and otherwise in lovely condition. Late 19th c. I believe. Lovely.