Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Burdick

This item is an original oil painting on board, executed in an American Impressionist style, featuring a detailed woodland scene. The composition focuses on a large, mature tree with a thick, textured trunk in the foreground, with branches extending across the upper portion of the frame. The color palette is rich with earth tones, utilizing ochre, sienna, forest green, and muted grays to depict a forest floor covered in autumn leaves and a dark, flowing stream or path in the background. The brushwork is gestural and impasto in nature, showing confident, thick applications of paint that suggest light filtering through a canopy. The painting is signed 'BURDICK' in the lower right corner, likely referring to an American artist such as Charles Burdick or a contemporary working in the Plein Air tradition. It is housed in a high-quality, wide-profile gilt wooden frame featuring a stepped inner liner and acanthus leaf carvings at the corners. The frame shows minor surface abrasions and light dust accumulation consistent with mid-to-late 20th-century age. The painting itself appears to be in excellent stable condition with no signs of flaking, significant craquelure, or previous restoration visible under normal lighting. The overall craftsmanship suggests a professional degree of skill, particularly in the handling of natural light and tonal depth.