Pair of Cats with Basket and Roses, c. 1920s-30s Ethel Johnt Painting in Original Frame Anneliese Beckh I also like that this

I also like that this buttoned up boy looks as much like a grown man as he does a young child--to me appearing as if well on his way to become a suburban banker

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giving a terrific softness to the blue

except that I believe she studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and received her BFA in Painting from Mass College of Art

I would guess used by a logger/lumberer

Pair of Cats with Basket and Roses, c. 1920s-30s Ethel Johnt Painting in Original Frame Anneliese Beckh I also like that thisPhotos don't quite do justice to this one getting enough light on the painting blows out the gold of the frame, but you get the picture! The cat paintings I really like are ones where the faces seem quite human, which I think is the case with this one; they make me think of a pair of older women BFF's most definitely who have had face work plus drawn wings at the corners of their eyes with eye liner! All the better for the way they seem to gaze