Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase and a sweetgrass rim on

and a sweetgrass rim on both the lip and on the underside

I found it at an estate sale of a man who served in Japan during WWII and brought a lot back with him

which is attached by brass screws at center

page 497-8 has of the index has come loose from the binding

Unsigned/unmarked

Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas tall pottery craft vase and a sweetgrass rim onI'm quite taken with this small painting, which I can't stop looking at, and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size, though its scale is exactly right. I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue, which winds through and around the rest of the forms, literally tying them together. I'd guess the painting titled "The Story" portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with red tree at