Featured Umbrella Painting: Comments pls

Found this in a thrift store in Portland, Oregon. I thought it was interesting.

It's big at 55" wide x 49" high (1.4 x 1.25 m).

Based on the back, it looked promising to me: original canvas & frame, older (wider) staples than common today, primed surface, some age....

What do you all think?

Alas, no signature anywhere that I see.

Thanks in advance!

 

...and, since it's my thread, I'm gonna go ahead and post this poem that the painting reminds me of:

The Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.

--Wallace Stevens

 

Gotta say I like the poem better.

 

It's has a children's book illustrative look to it. Very whimsical.

The back is confusing me a bit. The corner braces are usually a thing on factory or decor art. They have different staples, which look like they're not holding anything together...usually that's cause they were holding a paper corner bumper for shipment. The numbers look inventory style too.

It's possible someone reused a canvas or stretchers, but idk why they wouldn't add a signature, unless they signed on the side covered by frame.

 

Doesn't it? Rather Seussian.

Debora

 

I like the colors but I do fear its a factory piece.

 

Thanks for the comments @mirana. I agree that it's whimsical and children's-book-ish.

 

I wouldn't have thought it a factory piece, but of course I value your opinion!

 

They might almost be mushrooms on the verge of popping open.

Although the spores must still be there, once, & once only, had magical (no, not that kind of magic) tiny yellow mushrooms like these appear, wither, in the course of a day, at the base of my Christmas cactus.

 

just not enuf staples for my liking...! ...

 

Ditto.

So sweet.

 

It'd be right at home in Cherbourg, eh?

 

I like the vibrant colours but that’s all. The umbrellas look more like weird sweets on sticks. Still I wouldn’t have thought factory art. That being said Iam sure someone would like to own it… (artistic impression of umbrellas)

 

I have no mycological skills, Bronwen...though I enjoy eating any that come under my nose...so can't help with what those in your Christmas cactus soil are called or whether they're edible. But that image, an' your recitation of their extremely brief duration, is powerfully evocative. My area is renown for the number an' variety of 'shrooms available in season, an' many of my friends are in the woods whenever the weather has been auspicious for their gathering. The very best are Chantrells, imo, including the elusive but luscious white variety. Yum...an' thanks for the sweet pic!

 

If you look closely, there is an outline of what appears to be a swimming pool ,which I beleive was originally painted blue,some of which is still visible on the left side of the painting,with colourful umbrellas all around it,but for some reason someone decided to paint the pool green.Would not think a factory painting.

 

Yeah, I wondered about that @Antiquefab. I thought maybe it hadn't been fully completed, but subsequently painting over makes sense too.

Neither makes a ton of sense, but okay.

Thanks for the comments.

 

They look like beach umbrellas to me