Early Door with Six Panes and View of Winter Trees, Very Painterly Antique RPPC 1929 art countered by the waves of

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

dry wood patina to the pine

including nicely carved rounds at the corners and intensively textured (stippled) surfaces on the chip carved pieces

6 1/2" tall x 7" wide (with dress spread flat)

and signed J

Early Door with Six Panes and View of Winter Trees, Very Painterly Antique RPPC 1929 art countered by the waves ofSuch 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