New Song To Day, Evocative Old Hand-painted Sign Found in Bar Harbor's Old Star Theatre cartoon characters with a varnish finish giving

with a varnish finish giving it a bit of sheen

Painting executed across two pages of paper

but what a fantastic image I think

What especially drew me to this one (in addition to the imagery itself--poor

Found in the Hudson River Valley

New Song To Day, Evocative Old Hand-painted Sign Found in Bar Harbor's Old Star Theatre cartoon characters with a varnish finish givingThere is a handwritten note on the back of this sign documenting its having been found (in 1988) inside the Old "Star Theatre" in Bar Harbor, Maine. I've included a photo of the theatre, which was built in 1908 as a cinema and entertainment center, equipped with 400 moveable chairs, a fine dancing floor, and "unquestionably the finest theater organ in Maine" according to the The Bar Harbor Times in 1924. Fun article about the Star on the site of the