WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Decorative Arts A fine & large antique

A fine & large antique black marble & specimen stone desk obelisk & thermometer

and cast by the Etling foundry

The folding top inlaid with scrolling ribbons around a central medallion with a classical garlanded hanging 'jewel' motif

the Art Institute of Chicago

we have not taken the plaque out of the frame

WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Decorative Arts A fine & large antiqueA important American Impressionist painting by Isabella Howland (1895 1974), "Ocho Rios", Jamaica, 1940. Howland was active in both Boston & New York, this impressionistic painting depicts locals washing laundry in a river located in Ocho Rios (Spanish for Eight Rivers) Jamaica. The painting shows six brightly clothed figures by a river washing clothing, the short yet decisive linear brush stokes are applied in the impasto manner, the rest of the