WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Sold a necessity with the stench

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WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Sold a necessity with the stenchA important American Impressionist painting by Isabella Howland (1895 1974), "Ocho Rios", Jamaica, 1940. Howland was active in both Boston & New York, this impressionistic painting depicts locals washing laundry in a river located in Ocho Rios (Spanish for Eight Rivers) Jamaica. The painting shows six brightly clothed figures by a river washing clothing, the short yet decisive linear brush stokes are applied in the impasto manner, the rest of the