This triptych speaks for itself--oh my, how clearly does it speak for itself. I found it in deep east Texas more than a dozen years ago. Not long after this stroke of good fortune, I had a conversation with another collector who had seen it in that shop but had passed on it because she didn't think it was old enough to be important or valuable. I shook my head in dismay, thanking whatever force kept it waiting there for me. So here it is, a fine example of primitive Americana, wonderfully rendered in the style of the social realists of the 1940s. The artist remains unknown to me, in spite of a set of initials planted boldly in the bottom right-hand corner of the third panel. Maybe in time this mystery will be revealed.