Moody Old Blue Winter Landscape Painting on Academy Board buildings This is just about the

This is just about the most beautiful little Japanese fan--sensu--that I can imagine

Because it is copper and features one smaller and one larger compartment inside

nail repaired split to the base

with this little man in brimmed hat at the center of the train

plus facial expression that looks quintessentially a catcher's to me

Moody Old Blue Winter Landscape Painting on Academy Board buildings This is just about theFound in New England, and this sure looks like a New England winter to me. And a winter landscape rendered in blues feels, after this winter especially, both formally accurate and metaphorically correct! This could use a cleaning if one is disposed that way, but I like it as it is. Oil on what looks to me to be Devoe Raynolds academy board, with partial label adhered to the back, c. 1930s or so I believe. 12 1 4" x 9 1 4". Some general soiling as