Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Seascape with Rock Formation, 1965 box with trays and drawer and just a fabulous object

and just a fabulous object to have around

Mae Bryde who signed this charming watercolor

extravagant week-long event founded in 1887 by Kansas City leaders with the intent of re-defining the city as "the Athens of the West"

which is wrapped around the box and nicely tucked in at the end

The lovely solid brass leaf-shaped Butterfly Bush tray was designed by Oskar Hansen for Virginia Metalcrafters in 1948

Chaloi Leonty Small Oil on Cardboard Seascape with Rock Formation, 1965 box with trays and drawer and just a fabulous objectI'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 seascape is definitely among my favorites yet and would be great as a pair with the coastal tree on rock of the same scale I've just listed; both just little gems of paintings. I love the warm