Completely Luminous c. 1920s-30s Oil on Wood Panel, F. Norton Genser plaited and with great texture on

and with great texture on the wings in between

with the IA after his signature at upper right I would guess referring to his class/year in school

1870s several months ago

and to wood framed box bottom

Quite elegant in its palette and simplicity

Completely Luminous c. 1920s-30s Oil on Wood Panel, F. Norton Genser plaited and with great texture onNo filter, as they say the sky here just glows, though there is a greater delicacy to the color, and nuance to the painting as a whole in person (there's a special quality to an oil painting on wood that seems to elude documentation). I found at an antiques shop in Maine I spotted it from a distance and it drew me like a magnet and surely that is where it was painted, c. 1920s 30s I believe. Signed by F. Norton Gesner (1876 1955), a Hartford,