An original oil painting on stretched linen by American painter Jon Lightfoot (1939 - 2018). A warm palette of brown, green, pink, peach and creamy white depict this still life bowl of fruit and half of a watermelon, called “Gorky’s Plate,” signed by the artist. Lightfoot was a prolific painter of Native American portraits and lived in Sante Fe, New Mexico. This painting (and “Edgar’s Table,” also offered in our shop) may have been from his early career — a few other of his still life paintings have surfaced from the 1960s. A treasure indeed.