Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape clay marbles A wide variety of techniques

A wide variety of techniques are represented here (this was very much about practice toward mastery)

Framed (as I found it): 11 1/8" x 8 1/4"

What I know about Charles Rabin is that he did not begin painting until he was 70 (with paints left over from a paint by numbers kit)

and the whisk broom older than that

I'm guessing 1920s-1940s and quite a sweet little thing I think

Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape clay marbles A wide variety of techniquesA nicely painterly view of meandering stream and tall trees and distant hills here, but really it is all about these dogs! I could look at those soulful faces all day, and then again tomorrow; what a marvelously expressive pair, super folky but quite regal at once. I purchased this one from a dealer in Tennessee, and it looks like it is signed at lower right, but the ground is so dark it is difficult to make out. Earlyish 20th century I would guess,