Atmospheric Oil on Canvas Landscape with Farm House by Emile Stange doll leg This sweet little pencil drawing

This sweet little pencil drawing really captures the essence of mouse-ness

number 22 of who knows how many

but it's Randolph Madlem's transcription of a story about hopping grass-eating rabbits that breaks my heart

6" l x 2 1/4" wide x 1 1/2" and in perfectly imperfect antique condition

and he'd spent a good bit of time trying to figure it out

Atmospheric Oil on Canvas Landscape with Farm House by Emile Stange doll leg This sweet little pencil drawingHappily, this impressionistic oil on canvas landscape is signed on reverse, and in a readable fashion, so I know it was painted by Emile Stange, with a quick search turning up a fair number of sale records for other paintings by the New Jersey based artist, 1863 1943, who seems to have exhibited actively between the late 1800s and 1930s. He seems to have primarily painted landscapes, much in keeping with this one, which I'd guess dates to the 1920s. I