SOLD Captain John J. Ivory Large c. 1930s Folk Art Painting of the Governor Rabie  mixed media on paper This is a wonderful

This is a wonderful

A little paint loss and a bit of minor flaking but stable and structure is very sound

I love it now set on a shelf among other carvings and curious little things

but it appears to have been seized by six year old Lucile Effie Morse at some point

As with that drawing

SOLD Captain John J. Ivory Large c. 1930s Folk Art Painting of the Governor Rabie  mixed media on paper This is a wonderfulI purchased this and a second painting (of the SS Marthas Vineyard) at an auction in New Hampshire, not knowing much about the late Capt. John J. Ivory who painted them, but just thinking they were great folk art ship paintings. The blue of that water gets me every time, and of course I love the tiny people! Ive done some research since (and there is a bunch of text handwritten by Ivory on the back of this one, too), learning that Captain Ivory was