Double Sided Antique Pennsylvania Slate Painting: Summer + Winter, Signed AC Eyler color pencil drawing (The carving of her hair

(The carving of her hair

and all the better for the loving old stapled split repair running along the top of his legs

and which I think bests any I have seen--could be used that way

Definitely mid-century and Italian I believe (the white glazed bottom is common to Bitossi)

But I am not certain

Double Sided Antique Pennsylvania Slate Painting: Summer + Winter, Signed AC Eyler color pencil drawing (The carving of her hairOld paintings on school slates are certainly make do," creations of sorts, as slates were certainly easier to come by than canvases, and I especially love double sided ones, taking advantage of the nature of the slates themselves. This one seems to have been expressly made to be flipped, offering a snow covered landscape with church for the winter and a leafy tree flanked cottage by the water for summer. I especially love the blue sky over black