Woman with basket on her head walking along a dirt road

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Oil painting of a Florida landscape showing an unidentified woman. The painting (a) has a dirt road in the center. The woman is walking down the path with a basket balanced on her head. She has one arm raised holding the basket. She is wearing a yellow dress and a red head scarf. On the right is a red Poinciana tree. There are palm trees and green vegetation on the far side of the road. The sky is primarily pink with a darker blue center to reflect a sunrise or sunset. The painting is signed in the bottom left. The reverse of the board has numerical inscriptions and paint splatter. The wooden frame (b) is brown in color and made from repurposed construction materials. The reverse of the frame has a metal wire anchored with a screw eye on each side strung across the upper back.

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