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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 11267299, member: 76316"]The frame is 10 3/4" by 7 3/4"; the image is 7 1/8" by 4 1/4".</p><p>The look is as if matted, but it isn't; the image ground is white, the 'mat' is a blueish gray, but as far as I can see it's all one surface...I dunno how that's done. The stylized sea-surface, clouds an' particularly the sky lead me to say Deco, but I'm not sure about that. Note the scale of the flag against her transom...an' its absence of any image.</p><p>Reeves' signature is crisp an' clean...but the date (if that's what it is) has lost its final digit in the ~0.050" border; it's probably in the '20's, but what seems to be a 9 may be a 4...in which case I doubt it is a date.</p><p>Overall the image appears quite accomplished to my unskilled eye, so I'm hoping Reeves is a known name, an' that some of you will be able to shed some good light on Reeves an' their works. Thanks for lookin'!.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]539877[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539878[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539879[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539880[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539884[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 11267299, member: 76316"]The frame is 10 3/4" by 7 3/4"; the image is 7 1/8" by 4 1/4". The look is as if matted, but it isn't; the image ground is white, the 'mat' is a blueish gray, but as far as I can see it's all one surface...I dunno how that's done. The stylized sea-surface, clouds an' particularly the sky lead me to say Deco, but I'm not sure about that. Note the scale of the flag against her transom...an' its absence of any image. Reeves' signature is crisp an' clean...but the date (if that's what it is) has lost its final digit in the ~0.050" border; it's probably in the '20's, but what seems to be a 9 may be a 4...in which case I doubt it is a date. Overall the image appears quite accomplished to my unskilled eye, so I'm hoping Reeves is a known name, an' that some of you will be able to shed some good light on Reeves an' their works. Thanks for lookin'!. [ATTACH=full]539877[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539878[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539879[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539880[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]539884[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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