Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle all the more so for

all the more so for being done on lined paper

a prolific and perpetually curious

I haven't been able to figure out the artist behind this painting

I think this non-preciousness is made even better when the boards tells stories of the people who made and used them

I am not certain of the wood --it may be cherry

Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Flower Tree Painting, 1935 carved turtle all the more so forI bought a bunch of these together, my favorites of which I am listing individually, then I'll list another handful together, your choice, at a common price. A little digging reveals that "Fireside Studios" the maker of these "practice boards was a division of Fireside Industries, Adrian, Michigan, which sold and promoted all manner of decorative projects targeted to women at home. With these practice boards, one was to complete decorative painting