Sweet c. 1920s Fred Abbott Naive Painting of Bear Mountain and Pond, with Canoe botanical I might have thought from

I might have thought from the shape of this that it this was a knitting stick or sheath

These are the sorts of things that I am incapable of walking away from--completely alive with the image of a child deeply absorbed in bringing imagined characters to life in order to physically enact war-time dramas at miniature scale

Shame and disgrace attend vice

Sitting on hind legs he sits 8 1/4" t

Sweet c. 1920s Fred Abbott Naive Painting of Bear Mountain and Pond, with Canoe botanical I might have thought fromA charming little painting, which a handwritten note on reverse describes as depicting (I think it reads) "Bear Mountain and Pond" (there's a bridge mentioned too) and attributes to Prof. Fred F. Abbott of Portland Maine, teacher and violin composer. I've actually found a few other examples of paintings by Abbott previously sold, including a fabulous woman with horse dated 1924, which I'd guess is about when this one was done. I love the inclusion of