Naive Signed 1938 Oil on Linen Veronica's Veil Painting J.S. Schaff Kansas photo This mushroom

This mushroom

and one part suburban housewife swinger

Definitely one of the loveliest pieces of miniature folk art furniture I've had

best of all those beautifully carved untied laces

or of receiving a letter

Naive Signed 1938 Oil on Linen Veronica's Veil Painting J.S. Schaff Kansas photo This mushroomI presume this painting, signed Peter Murray and dated 1938, was done after one famous image or another of Veronica's Veil, that most venerated of Christian relics. (According to medieval legend, the veil belonged to a woman who took pity on Christ as he toiled with his burden of the cross to Golgotha. She gave Christ her kerchief to wipe his brow, and when he returned the cloth, his image miraculously had been impressed upon it.) I of course love its