Print: Pastoral, Boy Tending Sheep with Collie Dog - Anthony Cucchi, Gilded Border, Vintage 1930s

A boy, his collie, his sheep, and all the time in the world. Anthony Cucchi painted it nearly a century ago. It hasn't aged a day.

• Maker: Anthony Cucchi (American painter)
• Materials: Paper, gilded border
• Dimensions: 17.75" × 12" (landscape)
• Origin: USA
• Era: Vintage, 1930s–1940s
• Condition: Very good — small hole in upper right margin; tiny holes in gilded top margin (likely from display pins); pencil X by artist signature; pencil number on bottom margin. Image itself excellent. Unframed. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.

After the painting "Boy Tending Sheep" by Anthony Cucchi. Depicts a young shepherd boy and his Collie dog watching over their flock against a blue and white background with a warm gilded border. At nearly 18 inches wide, a genuinely large print. One available.

The boy's easy confidence and the Collie's alert attention give the composition a timeless quality that feels equally at home in a farmhouse, a study, a boy's room, or any interior that welcomes the pastoral tradition of American illustration at its most charming — a wonderful piece for a pastoral art collector, an equestrian or rural Americana enthusiast, or a lover of vintage illustration.

These advertisement prints were produced for calendars and promotional use throughout the 1930s and 1940s — the best of them genuine paintings of American rural life, brought into ordinary households through everyday ephemera. This is one of the finer examples of that tradition, both for its scale and for the quality of Cucchi's original composition.

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