Red House, Blue Sky, Atmospheric Folk Art Roof Slate Painting ruby ambrotype Perhaps most of all I

Perhaps most of all I love these two wonderful boys in their complementary green and red parkas and and opposing gestures at lower left

with a key on the last page identifying each of the objects pictured

--but I'm sure glad someone saved it

no cracks in the slate

especially things like initials carved in the frames and old make-do repairs

Red House, Blue Sky, Atmospheric Folk Art Roof Slate Painting ruby ambrotype Perhaps most of all II know from the dealer I purchased this from that it came out a house the specific house portrayed in Vermont, though I am forgetting the name of the town. I love a house portrait, and am fairly sure the slate this house was drawn painted on was salvaged from the house's roof (there's some old hardened tar on the the back) and the manner of it makes it feel less as if rendered and more as if it just magically emerged! With the framework of the house