Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill antique Belgian playing cards Losses as documented

Losses as documented

but it's the bird drawing on the inside of the front cover that sold me

Found in Maine and I think a pretty old one

I am guessing there were not too many of this set produced (perhaps the patent was never granted

Dimensions:  27" l x 12 7/8" t

Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill antique Belgian playing cards Losses as documentedI 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