Early Door with Six Panes and View of Winter Trees, Very Painterly Antique RPPC 1929 art representing neither the first nor

representing neither the first nor the last use of "action" painting as both an attraction and a sales device

dry wood patina to the pine

7 1/8" x  10 1/8"

countered by the waves of her hair pulled back in a bun

and signed J

Early Door with Six Panes and View of Winter Trees, Very Painterly Antique RPPC 1929 art representing neither the first norSuch a painterly photograph, I'm obsessed with it. A bit underexposed, the photo itself feels soft and dreamy, which makes the door threshold feel ethereal, and so all the more metaphorical of passage from one place, or one world, to another. And then formal qualities of this very old door itself a wonderful overall play of geometries, and with the photograph also capturing with clarity each knob in the wood, each nail on the horizontal braces running