"Western Landscape with Victorian House" - D. R. Parker.

Oil on Canvas.
Canvas: 18 x 24 in.
Frame: 26.5 x 32.25 in.
Signed, bottom right.
 
A luminous and atmospheric oil painting that evokes a sense of quiet mystery, remoteness, and nostalgia through its use of soft, ethereal light in pale blues, purples, and golds.  A large Victorian-style house sits shrouded in a thick, rolling fog, its architectural details softened into a ghostly silhouette against the hazy blue and lavender sky. The foreground features a sparse, arid landscape with skeletal trees and dry grasses, illuminated by a stray patch of golden light that suggests a sun breaking through the misty atmosphere. The composition creates a dreamlike, haunting quality, that includes the grandeur of the historic architecture and with untamed, rugged vastness of the American West.
 
This oil on canvas painting is read to hang is a stately vintage frame with metallic leaf details.