C. 1940s-50s Oil on Canvas Painting of Young Woman in Yellow Mending illustration Just a great drawing I

Just a great drawing I think

bit overall excellent condition and just lovely

I love the extra long and thin shape of the middle fingers  especially

Hand-marbled hardcover with cloth spine

And carved links at either end make for easy hanging

C. 1940s-50s Oil on Canvas Painting of Young Woman in Yellow Mending illustration Just a great drawing INot really my usual style, but when I came across this painting in Maine yesterday it would not let me go. To me, it has a bit of a WPA feeling about it, and this lovely, rosy cheeked young woman seems to me quietly heroic, looking as if perhaps a few months pregnant and mending (I assume) what looks more like a sheet or blanket than a shirt, and so feels somehow more hopeful and future oriented than a mundane daily chore. (And or perhaps the wear to