Dog After Pheasant, Old Folk Art Painting on Wood Panel hand-embrodiered with long and curving trunk

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Overall very good condition except for a hole on underside

Dog After Pheasant, Old Folk Art Painting on Wood Panel hand-embrodiered with long and curving trunkThis is one of a pair of paintings I found together yesterday in Maine, clearly done by the same person and I think equally terrific. (The other is a little smaller.) As opposed to the wolf aggressively chasing a pair of deer in the other painting, here this shaggy dog with what I assume is a pheasant in its sights seems more a lot more friendly than ferocious! The bright sky opening behind him gives this one the feel, to me, of a brisk, invigorating