Winter Forest River (Oil on Canvas)

Our rule here at the (V)VAG is that our exhibits must be by real artists, mostly amateur, not commercial art or mass-produced art i.e. not the kind of "real" paintings one might find in the Home Decor departments of places like Target, or (back in the day) JC Penny, Sears, Kmart etc. This originally felt to me to be a store-bought painting of the variety just mentioned. My Girl Friday (i.e. the Della Street to my Perry Mason, the Velda to my Mike Hammer, a.k.a. my wife) said she thinks it's non-commercial, legit, non-professional, human-being-type-artist-person created art. I googled the artist's name and learned nothing. So it's here until someone can show me for sure that it is commercial. How's that for a long-winded into? Let me keep the rest of this brief then:

It's great! And it's old, like easily (I'm guessing?) 1970s old. Good job, almost-certainly-dead artist-person.