American Oil on Board Painting of Fallen Tree, Signed REA, 1949 vintage Japanese chopsticks represent Chassid

represent Chassid

A bit of research leads me to believe that most if not all were made from a kit of Strombecker Steam Locomotives dating to the 1920s or 30s

and then initialed (proudly

which allowed for clicking through multiple images on rotating cardboard disks

labeled with an arrow at center

American Oil on Board Painting of Fallen Tree, Signed REA, 1949 vintage Japanese chopsticks represent ChassidI purchased this painting from an online seller, especially for those painterly soft green leaves against puffy cloud filled sky reminding me of Arthur Wesley Dow, and it is even better in person, where you can reach out and touch the impasto! I think it is a pretty interesting painting too, with this half dead, half living, half fallen, half rising, somewhat awkward but also graceful tree that I perhaps it is because I am nearing fifty! might take as