Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder wooden sailor and goat with “goat house”

and goat with “goat house” to his left (with fabulous weathervane

This circa 1970s Mexican folk art triple vase or triple candleholder--with the most beatific face I can imagine--is unsigned

as do significant amounts of the red paint on the sides

Overall dimensions: 24" t x 18" w

Super Lush Antique Oil on Board Landscape with Sheep and Sheep Herder wooden sailor and goat with “goat house”It doesn't take a whole lot to sell me on a naive 19th century painting with sheep and a sheepherder in it, but with this one it it's the ultra lush landscape that really does it for me. And the stylized treatment and super rich color of those trees and hills, river and sky actually made me think immediately of the paintings of Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry (apt as I found this en route to Kansas City) to come many years later. To my eye,