Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill antique Belgian playing cards " This is a 3

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Found in Maine and I think a pretty old one

4 9/16" x 3" x 1 7/8"

Connecticut from which this view of the 1925 total solar eclipse was captured

Benton-esque Old Folk Art Slate Painting, House With Mill antique Belgian playing cards " This is a 3I found this one in Western MA, probably not far form where it was painted I believe about 100 years ago on a school slate well older that that, with initials carved into the wood on one side. What struck me especially was the palette and gesturally painted passages of near abstraction, unusual in my experience for a folk painting on slate, and immediately making me think of Thomas Hart Benton. Also feels kind of Adirondack y. 12 3 4 x 8 3 4 and in