This is a very cute naive oil on canvas painting of a late summer New England landscape with a small lake which has a sailboat sailing on it – it appears that the artist’s viewpoint was from the front of a cove that opens out into the main body of the lake – the artist painted some old logs & some stones at the shoreline of the cove in order to give the viewer some perspective in contrast to the main part of the painting – the cove’s surface is very still & calm & was painted with a palette of muted gray-blue & off-white colors – on the left & in the right center of the painting, there are shadows of trees & foliage on the water’s surface that were nicely done by the unknown artist using a palette of muted shades of green. Entering the cove is a sailboat with its hull painted in brown with a single mast & sail painted in muted beige & off-white colors – beyond the sailboat, we see many more trees & foliage in the distance on the far shoreline where the artist used muted shades of yellow & green color in a more impressionistic style to create a sense of space & distance – the sky above the distant trees & foliage was painted a pale blue with lots of puffy clouds floating throughout the sky – the clouds were painted in muted gray & off-white colors – overall, considering this is a naive type of oil painting, the artist did a very nice job in creating this lovely rustic painting which would look great hanging on the wall of somebody’s rustic cabin in the woods or near a lake.