Clifford M. Guptill's Sublime 1910 Lubec, Maine Folk Art Glass Windowed Barn in Perfect Paint folk art chalkware and Vassar College Museum

and Vassar College Museum

Nice old ones and in great shape

Whether this monk achieved sainthood I am not entirely sure

which I believe adds to its appeal as a truly remarkable object

Clifford M. Guptill's Sublime 1910 Lubec, Maine Folk Art Glass Windowed Barn in Perfect Paint folk art chalkware and Vassar College MuseumIf I were to imagine the purest expression of a folk art architectural structure I could, this would be it. And very happily, it was accompanied by a card identifying its maker, Clifford M. Guptill, of Lubec, Maine (the easternmost municipality in the contiguous U. S.) who constructed it at the Lubec Lifesaving Station in 1910. (I've included a 1905 photo of that station found online; perhaps our Clifford is one of the men standing beside it!) All