Friday Finds - 2 Jorge Dunn Paintings + a old Cowboy's(?) Leather Saddle Scabbard for Rifle

Went to the local thrift store today to try to find something that would 'pop' as the first photo in my weekend yard sale post - and found what looks like a cowboy's saddle scabbard for his winchester (rifle of choice in old west days!).

Can anyone tell how old it is? It's the only one I've found with a buckle to close end - others are zippers, snaps or left open. Also it just has brass? rings to tie it to a saddle - no straps; which makes me hopeful it's older!

My other find were 2 paintings by Panamanian artist Jorge Dunn. Googling him I found this short bio:


Brief info
For decades, Dunn had labored humbly outside Paitilla's Arrocha Pharmacy and had sold his canvas works in other well-trafficked areas in the capital and the old Canal Zone. Dunn was the son of a gifted West Indian family that had immigrated to the isthmus at the beginning of the twentieth century. His father was a Jamaican shoe designer, and his brother Eugenio (1917-1999) was also a well-known painter. Several other members of the Dunn clan have since gone on to become accomplished artists.

Dunn (1924-2007) had learned to paint through his own efforts, and while he never fully gained the cultural elite's recognition, he did attract hundreds of more ordinary collectors who avidly purchased his cadenced renditions of Panama's tinanjas, "dancing bottles," sailboats, fish, and musical instruments, as well as his eye-catching visions of El Chorillo and the Interior.

I seem to have one of his sailboats & I'm guessing the one with trees is one of his 'eye-catching visions of El Chorillo and the Interior' (Interior meaning the forest or woods of Panama?) - because the colors of that one are ... eye catching for sure!

Wishing you all a happy week-end!

 

Wow! He's a great colorist! Here's information on El Chorrillo. Notice it was a community of immigrants, many from the Antilles. In Spanish, "el interior" means the interior of the country and implies a less-populated area. Wonder if those are meant to be trumpet trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Chorrillo

Debora

 

Incredible colors!
Thanks Debora

 

Woof, I'm thinking the Voirin might have been a fluke

 

Yikes

 

You don't like these finds?

 

Not the paintings mate no, but no excuse for me being rude about them though

I've got an acid tongue after drinking a few !!

 

Journey, if they sell for a profit they're a good buy.

 

The sailboats are ok, but the colors on the trees are great!