Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS tally that shows a little wear

that shows a little wear around the edges

Feels as fresh as if painted yesterday

with two carved rings at center

structurally sound and with tight fitting sliding lid that slides well and holds tightly closed

For the kiddos

Woman Carrying Load Through Landscape, Antique on Board Painting Signed WS tally that shows a little wearI read this painting as portraying a figure (whom I take for a woman) carrying a load (looks like bundle of kindling, maybe more) across her back through a winter landscape. The interruption in the bank of trees in the distance, precisely aligned with her position in the foreground, suggests that may be her path rather than to arrive at home at the house at right but either way this feels like a portrait of a place and rural life defined by the