Texas Art Oil on Canvas Board Landscape Painting Dollie Spidle Nabinger 1920's

Description

Here is an oil painting by renowned Texas artist Dollie Nabinger, (1905-1988). It is a springtime woodland landscape showing beautiful trees and flowering bushes with a wooden picket fence in the background. It is oil on canvas board and the board itself measures 10 1/2" x 14". To the outside of the frame, it measures 13 1/2" x 17". The painting is in excellent condition. There is some craquelure especially in the sky areas. The frame looks to be from the period and it too is in good condition except for a small amount of old termite damage to one corner (only visible from the back). I think this is an early painting for her because she signed it "Dollie Spidle". She changed her name to Nabinger in the 1920's. She was raised in Victoria Texas, (which is where this painting was purchased from a collector's estate).  She also attended the Art Student's League in New York and later studied in San Antonio under Jose Arpa and Harry Anthony De Young. She was one of Texas' favorite landscape artists.
I have recently come to realize that this painting has been lined (or perhaps the term is re-lined). At some point there was some restoration performed on it. The original painting was oil on canvas; and that canvas was on a regular stretcher. Somewhere along the line, someone has removed the canvas from that stretcher and applied it to this canvas board, which itself looks old and hand-made. I suspect the termite damage may have involved the stretcher as well as the frame, and this necessitated the restoration.