Atmospheric Oil on Canvas Landscape with Farm House by Emile Stange primitive carved ashtray and all the better that

and all the better that it should have handles to roll it with

They are made of turned and painted wood with colorful chromolithographed paper decoration and tapered "legs" screwed to wood bases

filled with a pitch/wood resin mold material

and the sunflowers and strawberries on reverse

As there were no marks of violence upon him we viewed his remains sorrowfully and Heinrich bore him tenderly to his last resting place

Atmospheric Oil on Canvas Landscape with Farm House by Emile Stange primitive carved ashtray and all the better thatHappily, this impressionistic oil on canvas landscape is signed on reverse, and in a readable fashion, so I know it was painted by Emile Stange, with a quick search turning up a fair number of sale records for other paintings by the New Jersey based artist, 1863 1943, who seems to have exhibited actively between the late 1800s and 1930s. He seems to have primarily painted landscapes, much in keeping with this one, which I'd guess dates to the 1920s. I