Row Houses, Three Styles, c. 1940s Acrylic on Board Painting, Presumed Allentown PA vintage color study intensively patterned geometric drawings

intensively patterned geometric drawings

With their long snouts

Also on the reverse

I've documented a representative sample

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

Row Houses, Three Styles, c. 1940s Acrylic on Board Painting, Presumed Allentown PA vintage color study intensively patterned geometric drawingsThe 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