Pair of Cats with Basket and Roses, c. 1920s-30s Ethel Johnt Painting in Original Frame Anneliese Beckh except that I believe she

except that I believe she studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and received her BFA in Painting from Mass College of Art

giving a terrific softness to the blue

-- I think the design of them is just terrific

There are some minorish bends in the metal

with the fantastic design on the face made by progressively overlapping what seem mostly to be silk ribbons/strips

Pair of Cats with Basket and Roses, c. 1920s-30s Ethel Johnt Painting in Original Frame Anneliese Beckh except that I believe shePhotos don't quite do justice to this one getting enough light on the painting blows out the gold of the frame, but you get the picture! The cat paintings I really like are ones where the faces seem quite human, which I think is the case with this one; they make me think of a pair of older women BFF's most definitely who have had face work plus drawn wings at the corners of their eyes with eye liner! All the better for the way they seem to gaze