Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 small fan Though done as a mock-graphic

Though done as a mock-graphic for the U

There are two tiny pin holes in two of the corners

The Encampment Tent is a common IOOF symbol and also a level of degrees

and indeed have learned they are pretty rare--and this set all the rarer for being double nines rather than double sixes--and all 55 of them are here

I love how determined--possessed

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Landscape with Tree in Rock, 1965 small fan Though done as a mock-graphicI've gone back to the same dealer in Russia three times now to purchase paintings by Chaloi Leonty, whose estate the dealer handles; I just think he was a really good landscape painter, and Russian prices are pretty good! This impressionistic oil on cardboard may be my favorite yet really a little gem of a painting, and I could look at that sunlit tree against painterly clouds and radiant blue sky all day. I might guess this was was painted along the