Oil on Canvas Landscape with Sliced Apples, Signed Burns carved wooden puppet ) to jump through the

) to jump through the hoop he holds so tightly in one hand

This double-sided drawing came from the small sketchbook of a Willis Hutchinson

14”x28” (with an additional 2" of fringe on each end)

box included

with those great wire stitches holding the bristles in place

Oil on Canvas Landscape with Sliced Apples, Signed Burns carved wooden puppet ) to jump through theIt's the big red sliced apple in the foreground that really drew me to this painting, very much larger than life amid this impressionistic landscape, which dissolves into a sort of earlyish Kandisky esque abstraction in the foreground. A bit of a curious one, setting a bit of an uncertain mood, signed Burns on the left side at the horizon line, and which I'd guess dates to the 1920s or so. In what I believe is its original gold painted frame, which