Landscape with Gate, Charming Old Folk Art Oil Painting in Gold Frame turning wheel stencil but it is so worth

but it is so worth it

So Japanese--maybe 1980s or so

and one can very much feel the care invested in making them (and

With the bottom shot through as well as most every inch of its sides

The reverse side is a solid dark red

Landscape with Gate, Charming Old Folk Art Oil Painting in Gold Frame turning wheel stencil but it is so worthA little gem of a folk painting I think, better in person the combination of blue and green and white really do it for me, and I love that the gate is neat dead center, a threshold just waiting to be crossed. And the painterly bands of white to either side of it, though I guess representing a stone wall, seem as if suggesting a flock of sheep lined up waiting to be released! Initialed at lower right and framed as found, in an old gold painted frame