Rotunda Amid Dense Trees, Intriguing and Atmospheric Hudson River School Oil on Linen Painting Fragment, Framed stop sign and his companion keeps making

and his companion keeps making me think of mermaid drawings from centuries ago

Small: 3 5/16" in diameter x 1 5/16" t

and in a sandy-cotton candy-ish palette that  feels true to the desert and to the 1940s or so

I think it beautifully captures the posture

a small chip to one side of the "pedestal"

Rotunda Amid Dense Trees, Intriguing and Atmospheric Hudson River School Oil on Linen Painting Fragment, Framed stop sign and his companion keeps makingI find this one super atmospheric and evocative, and a bit mysterious, with this rotunda feeling like a long forgotten place, encircled with overgrowth, but inside of which might be something grand! The painting is 19th century Hudson River School, a fragment salvaged from a larger painting I believe. I opened the frame to see it oil on linen and photographed it both inside and outside the frame, as shown. This one feels to me like inspiration for a