120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample folk art picture frame I purchased this painting from

I purchased this painting from a seller in Connecticut

4 3/4" x 3 7/8" x 1"

) I would guess this old brass triangle was used by a carpenter

but stable and I might argue all the better for the wear

creating a dream-like piece that makes me think of Kandinsky's horses as well as some of my favorite outsider art

120 Colours on Loose Cotton, Late 19th C. Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co.NYC Salesman Sample folk art picture frame I purchased this painting fromI swooned when I found this one, at an antiques shop in Columbia PA, and can't find documentation of another like it out there anywhere. It was produced by Kuttroff, Pickhardt & Co., NYC, an early American dye company, started by the German immigrant Adolf Kuttroff to commercialize chemical dyes from the French firm A. Poirrier. In 1876, the company became the American seller of the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (BASF) chemical company. (In 1925, it