THE two pictures opposite represent a vanished era in a primitively bold way. Part of a set of 13 oils recently discovered in Auburn, N.Y., they went on show this week in a tent on the grounds of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown. Nobody knows who painted them. The artists worked on the scale of the present-day "New York School" abstractionists, for the pictures measure 7 ft. by 10 ft. and up. All 13 pictures (painted on mattress ticking) were commissioned over a century ago by one George Mastin. a Genoa....
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