Rotunda Amid Dense Trees, Intriguing and Atmospheric Hudson River School Oil on Linen Painting Fragment, Framed stop sign A tremendously evocative and highly

A tremendously evocative and highly empathetic object

and early on a popular meeting place for Socialists

I first photographed this in the old frame I found it in

and in a sandy-cotton candy-ish palette that  feels true to the desert and to the 1940s or so

a small chip to one side of the "pedestal"

Rotunda Amid Dense Trees, Intriguing and Atmospheric Hudson River School Oil on Linen Painting Fragment, Framed stop sign A tremendously evocative and highlyI find this one super atmospheric and evocative, and a bit mysterious, with this rotunda feeling like a long forgotten place, encircled with overgrowth, but inside of which might be something grand! The painting is 19th century Hudson River School, a fragment salvaged from a larger painting I believe. I opened the frame to see it oil on linen and photographed it both inside and outside the frame, as shown. This one feels to me like inspiration for a