Initialed lower right, 'A.F' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1940. A tonalist study of a young woman with bobbed brown hair, shown gazing to the viewer's left and painted in muted, tonalist shades of rust, blue and grey. A painterly and psychologically penetrating portrait by a skilled and, as yet, unidentified hand. Displayed in a period, painted and carved, wooden frame. Framed dimensions: 23.5 x 19.5 x 1.5 inches.