Company H, 4th Sec. Cabin, Lovely Small Antique Painting on Oiled Canvas Over Wood, Signed Hicks vintage copper bottle opener Pretty excellent

Pretty excellent

and yet forever elusive

he still stands fine on his own

and the scale of the basket is quite small

This little notebook of sketches and paintings by a Charles A Foss feels a bit schizophrenic--amid a series of quite clever (and I think quite fabulous) punning pencil drawings are a number of simple little paintings of flowers

Company H, 4th Sec. Cabin, Lovely Small Antique Painting on Oiled Canvas Over Wood, Signed Hicks vintage copper bottle opener Pretty excellentOne of two by the same maker I purchased at the New Hampshire antique show, both painted on waxed canvas stretched over solid wood panel, with the waxing of the canvas lending an delicate, atmospheric quality that photos can't quite capture. And the soft, subtle palette on this one makes lends it a particular sort of otherworldliness, as if hovering in the space of one's memory. The door of this lonely little cabin reads 4th Sec Co H, which I presume