WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Decorative Arts The folding top inlaid with

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

as an art dealer and auctioneer but also by speculating in tulips (he was the last known victim of the tulip mania of the 1630s) and real estate

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

the Art Institute of Chicago

WPA Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil Painting Panel "Ocho Rios" Jamaica by Isabella Howland 1940 Decorative Arts The folding top inlaid withA 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