# Name this artist/painting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 20, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756 "2013-10-20T22:10:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756/1 "2013-10-20T22:10:01Z")

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My wife found a lovely, if probably generic, watercolor landscape in an antique shop on our current vacation. We’re curious if the ever-amazing dopers can help us figure out any of it’s backstory. If it helps any, the shop where it was lurking is in Kingston, NY.

Here’s the painting: [Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/m6fh17pg2f5zxo6/IMG_3231.jpg)

And here’s the signature: [Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/25ruo6bawbuq8zh/IMG_3230.jpg)

Any idea who the artist might be? Where the scene is?

Thanks!!!

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**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756/2 "2013-10-21T14:26:25Z")

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No ideas? I expect it’s probably an obscure local artist, but we were hoping somebody might recognize the monogram…

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756/3 "2013-10-21T14:35:08Z")

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[This website might help.](http://www.findartinfo.com/).

Could the signature be a very stylized JOS?

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**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756/4 "2013-10-21T14:41:29Z")

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Thanks- didn’t find it there. We’re leaning toward “FSG” as the initials; but of course have no idea what order they’d be in.

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**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756/5 "2013-10-21T16:57:37Z")

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This [collection](http://www.artistssignatures.com/index.php) of artist signatures has a couple of close results, but you need an account to look up the details.

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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-artist-painting/671756/6 "2013-10-21T17:11:02Z")

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There are a number of reference works on artist’s signatures and monographs that would probably be available at your public library, or, better yet, a museum library, but the sites online are all pay, AFAIK.