Tuesday Treasures - September 12, 2023

 One of the Goodwill retail stores had this this 1960 paint-by-number, Barn at the Bend for only $1.16 (my discounted price).  PBN are so "in" right now that this same one has sold on eBay and Etsy for over $50!  It's from a Craft Master kit of two (they usually were in pairs), and is 7J2.  7J was a red covered bridge.

These next three prints were found in the Goodwill Bins on two separate shopping trips.

Two large (approx. 23" x 18" each) 1950s lithographs published by An Abrams Color Print.  

Still sealed in its plastic wrapping is Henri Matisse's Still Life, which in full has the title Still Life With Oysters.  Photo taken through the plastic, so there's glare. 

The second is a Franz Marc, which this edition calls Animals at Bay, while the title of the original painting is Fate of the Animals. At first glance it looks like a nice colorful abstract, yet closer you see why it has the title it does.  Animals are fleeing in panic from flames, the trees are falling, all is chaos.  On the back of the original canvas the artist wrote, "And All Being is Flaming Suffering." The plastic around this was opened.  Still, my photo doesn't do the colors justice.  The painting has an interesting history.

 A 1930s fruit crate label.  Nice color, although the corners are discolored by glue that used to hold it to a frame back.  The frame's what protected it during its Bins trip though.  My son found this one for me. 

The art prints were found on a very quick trip.  I'd gone into the Bins after dropping off some donations, and a broken monitor. They take eWaste now, which saved me a trip to the dump (actually a transfer station).  $1.59 a pound.

Seeing all the blues and reds... Blue Monday & Ruby Tuesday Too