Found
Framed watercolor landscape with gold frame
Bozeman
Found
listing
Posted
about 1 month
ago
Description
Found this framed watercolor landscape this afternoon around 2:15 pm behind the Bozeman Public Library on East Main Street. It's a 16x20 inch painting in a gold-leaf frame with a cream mat, depicting a quiet mountain range, a blue river, and evergreen trees in soft blues and greens. The frame has a small dent on the bottom edge and there’s a tiny pencil initial 'L' etched in the bottom margin of the mat. It feels like it could be a local artist's piece, possibly unsigned—if this belongs to you, I’d really like to help reunite it with its owner.
Approximate found location
Bozeman
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