SOLD Great Old Varnished Cow Painting on Wood Panel antique gift book I'd set it on an

I'd set it on an open shelf so that I could just enjoy looking at it

first taught in America in the first half of the 19th c

) McLoughlin (1858-1920

I didn't know quite what this was when I found it

SOLD Great Old Varnished Cow Painting on Wood Panel antique gift book I'd set it on anI found this one at the Rhinebeck Antiques show last weekend and was sold in one second flat lots of life to this cow, and also a certain effortlessness to the rendering, and that white triangle at the center of its forehead lands just right to hold it all together. With a perfect wispiness to the end of its tail and painterly dark green grass all around its nicely hoofed feet. With a thin layer of stain varnish over top, and lots of pencil writing