Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase The bowl measures 9 1/2”

The bowl measures 9 1/2” across at widest and 5 1/2” tall

and a sweetgrass rim on both the lip and on the underside

Measures: 11 5/8" wide x  6" deep x 3 1/4" tall

Unsigned/unmarked

page 497-8 has of the index has come loose from the binding

Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase The bowl measures 9 1/2”I'm quite taken with this small painting, which I can't stop looking at, and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size, though its scale is exactly right. I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue, which winds through and around the rest of the forms, literally tying them together. I'd guess the painting titled "The Story" portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with red tree at