Listed Artist John A. Mallin (1883-1973) signed, large oil painting on heavy canvas landscape of small cottages (most likely Austrian scene pre 1907), giltwood frame measures 43" x 35", Note: John Mallin was born Johann Malinkowitsch on April 14th, 1883 in the town of Bischofwart in Lower Austria, and apprenticed to a series of master painter’s from 1898 to 1902. In 1898 Mallin traveled to Vienna to study at the School of Interior and Decorative Painters Guild. In 1907 Mallin moved to Chicago where he began his own interior decoration business. Mallin decorated banks, theaters, courthouses, homes, more than 100 churches, the facades at Chicago's Riverview Amusement Park, and the home of the wealthy businessman John Cuneo in Vernon Park, Illinois.

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