Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape clay marbles A wide variety of techniques

A wide variety of techniques are represented here (this was very much about practice toward mastery)

or just setting somewhere to be enjoyed

I'd guess one button eye was replaced at some point to make for an unmatched pair now

Framed (as I found it): 11 1/8" x 8 1/4"

then published by Parker Brothers later that year

Charming Old Folk Art Oil on Board Painting of Hunting Spaniels (with Best Faces Ever) in Landscape clay marbles A wide variety of techniquesA nicely painterly view of meandering stream and tall trees and distant hills here, but really it is all about these dogs! I could look at those soulful faces all day, and then again tomorrow; what a marvelously expressive pair, super folky but quite regal at once. I purchased this one from a dealer in Tennessee, and it looks like it is signed at lower right, but the ground is so dark it is difficult to make out. Earlyish 20th century I would guess,