Row Houses, Three Styles, c. 1940s Acrylic on Board Painting, Presumed Allentown PA vintage color study I found it filled with

I found it filled with old hardware

and signed what looks to me to be R

fitting exactly one deck of standard dimension cards snugly inside

I always have an eye out for beautiful antique rulers of various sorts

2" x 15/16" x 1/2"

Row Houses, Three Styles, c. 1940s Acrylic on Board Painting, Presumed Allentown PA vintage color study I found it filled withThe dealer I purchased this painting from had just pulled it out of an estate and thought the block pictured was likely in Allentown, PA. I don't know, but seems very plausibly a portrait of a block in a historic Allentown neighborhood, with a very pleasing mix of architectural styles represented. Quite precisely and painstakingly rendered, down to every brick on that Victorian perhaps an art design architecture school exercise, but if so executed