This is a sweet little watercolor by Frances Foy, an American artist from Chicago who was active in Chicago’s Progressive Movement in the 1920’s and 1930’s and went on to become a successful illustrator, painter, muralist, and etcher. She started as a fashion illustrator, then attended art school in Chicago, where she studied with Wellington Reynolds, a noted portrait artist. She married Gustav Dalstrom, another Chicago artist. They lived in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, and this watercolor may well be a scene from where they lived. In the 1930’s she won several mural commissions from the Treasury Department of the Federal government to decorate Post Offices around the country, and these were highly prestigious awards. The watercolor here features a run-down home or shack, a lake or river in the background, and a boat sitting in between some of the homes across the way. It is signed “Frances M. Foy” in the lower right part, there’s a Marshall Field label on the back, light soiling on the matte, commensurate with age, and the image itself is very clean. The overall size is 10 5/8 x 13 1/4 in. wide and the sight size is 5 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.