This one I purchased on Ebay from a seller in North Carolina; I always cross my fingers with paintings I haven't seen in person, because I often find it hard to tell how they will feel in person, but the way that ear of corn was painted totally won me, and I'm many times more smitten with it now in hand. I would be pretty confident in guessing that the Raymond Stahl who painted it grew each of these vegetables himself, with them together feeling like a portrait of a specific moment in the late summer when there are still tomatoes and peppers to pluck but the squash is coming in. With careful attention paid to the painting of each vegetable as if its own singular, proud thing, and this painterly yellow to orange to reddish brown ground that seems very much intended to capture the feeling of summer giving way to autumn. Love.
As found, in a solid oak frame: 11 1/4" x 8 7/8". Painting, oil on masonite, 8 3/4" x 6 1/8. All in very good condition. I found a record of the 2007 death of Raymond Stahl's wife, Elizabeth Eleanor Leonard Stahl at age 92, with a note that his death preceded hers. I'd guess this dates to the mid 20th c.
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