Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed blue purple matte glazed bowl Rhead Pottery in Santa Barbara

Rhead Pottery in Santa Barbara operated only from 1914-17 so the date on this is certain

and very satisfying paint job

as is something magical might be about to happen

Castor and Pollux

Politician

Adobe Interior with Woman Cooking and Stripes, 1929 Oil on Cardboard Painting, Signed blue purple matte glazed bowl Rhead Pottery in Santa BarbaraThe back of this painting is signed and a signature is scratched into the paint on the front right corner too, but I can't clearly read either. What first drew me to the painting is that wonderful passage of colorful strips at center, which I take for a bolster or perhaps a blanket running along the back of a platform sofa or day bed. But then it's all the details that make it really sweet the vessels lined up on the shelf above those stripes, the one