Red Astrican Apples Under Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Oil on Canvas Bali found in Maine

found in Maine

heart decorated iron pieces were usually made for a young women's dowry or as wedding presents

Initialed with what looks like LSH on the underside

1950s SNIP "Orakel-Karten" (Prophecy) cards

Red Astrican Apples Under Blue Sky, Old Folk Art Oil on Canvas Bali found in MaineA very winning old folk art painting of apples simple but just right, and clearly filled with admiration for these most iconic of fruits one can just feel the painter arranging them under perfect cloud streaked blue sky to give them their full due. The fact that the back of the painting notes not the name of the artist but, rather, the variety of apple, makes me think the painter likely grew and plucked them his or herself and was quite proud of the