Oil on Canvas Landscape with Sliced Apples, Signed Burns carved wooden puppet really a wonderful piece

really a wonderful piece

There are two different backs

) to jump through the hoop he holds so tightly in one hand

with those great wire stitches holding the bristles in place

This brass letter opener would feature in that spread

Oil on Canvas Landscape with Sliced Apples, Signed Burns carved wooden puppet really a wonderful pieceIt's the big red sliced apple in the foreground that really drew me to this painting, very much larger than life amid this impressionistic landscape, which dissolves into a sort of earlyish Kandisky esque abstraction in the foreground. A bit of a curious one, setting a bit of an uncertain mood, signed Burns on the left side at the horizon line, and which I'd guess dates to the 1920s or so. In what I believe is its original gold painted frame, which