Folk Painting on Canvas of Man with Cows and Dog in Landscape colorful tins There are no chips or

There are no chips or cracks

with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops against a checkerboard splint background

was inspired by on-- in which all sorts of things transpired

where it might be seen and used

and the repeating motif of what appear to be smiling little faces (maybe offspring

Folk Painting on Canvas of Man with Cows and Dog in Landscape colorful tins There are no chips orThis charming little painting is not dated but it is signed, twice, by L. P. Mott once very small in the bottom left corner of the painting, and then again, in big stylized letters, on the back of the canvas, suggesting that he or she was quite proud of it, and justifiably so I think! With a smartly organized composition, he or she packed a lot into this bucolic scene, wonderfully animated by a little black hatted man with three grazing and resting