Farm Scene with Two Cows and Man with Rifle, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board Painting antique pick up sticks It appears that a series

It appears that a series of carved stencils

and the other with a gridded rectangle

I can't help but to think of this Inuit carved soapstone Narwahl as a good luck talisman- like a unicorn

but he also makes me think of a train conductor

Farm Scene with Two Cows and Man with Rifle, Antique Folk Art Oil on Board Painting antique pick up sticks It appears that a seriesAnother old folk art farm painting, because I can't resist them, and I think the painted cows on this one are especially good. I spend a lot of tine driving, and walking, too, around places that still look very much like this, which makes it feel both quintessential New England and also specific, as if I might drive right by this particular property still looking very much the same. It looks to me that the figure here in blue coat and black hat holds