Double Sided Antique Pennsylvania Slate Painting: Summer + Winter, Signed AC Eyler color pencil drawing with some dings and paint

with some dings and paint loss here and there

I think this one would make a great frame for an old painting on board

and all the more so for its bright red interior

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

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

Double Sided Antique Pennsylvania Slate Painting: Summer + Winter, Signed AC Eyler color pencil drawing with some dings and paintOld 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