Perfectly Distressed Oil on Canvas Painting of Lonely Mansion long limbed figure This wonderful old barn-shaped wood

This wonderful old barn-shaped wood and wire bird cage was clearly made with a lot of love and care

federal government in 1881 which effectively put an end to many traditional ways of life

who played a "working" role

The ground reads white but is also reflective

with some loss of paint

Perfectly Distressed Oil on Canvas Painting of Lonely Mansion long limbed figure This wonderful old barn-shaped woodFor me it is the wear to this old paintingsome paint loss and some fading toothat makes it great, imparting this mansion with the sense of having been abandoned long ago, and perhaps haunted now! So moody and evocative, making me want to write all sorts of stories about things that happened inside. Late 19th c. or so Id guess. Oil on linen. 10 x 8 Paint loss and aging as evident, but if handled with a little care it seems pretty stable now.