Red Roofs, Blue Steeple, Moody Sky, Adelaide Lawson Expressionistic Oil on Canvas Sketch/Fragment hopi bowl The painting

The painting

who has included what seem to be specific notes about it

that the softness and mystery of it is due to the fact that it is a sandpaper painting--a  technique popular in the mid 19th century

as are the edges of the pages

I didn't know much of anything about this when I purchased it

Red Roofs, Blue Steeple, Moody Sky, Adelaide Lawson Expressionistic Oil on Canvas Sketch/Fragment hopi bowl The paintingOne last piece by Adelaide Lawson Gaylor today. I'm not entirely sure whether this oil on canvas painting was a fragment of a larger work or, I think much more likely, a complete work on a scrap of canvas, likely painted en plein air and looks like a view of an Italian hill town to me. It certainly feels complete as is, and full of energy, marvelous sky over those distinctive red terra cotta roofs with church steeply rising highest against the blue