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Sis told me she was at BBQ with her son in Sonoma CA. There were paintings of cow and bull heads on the walls and my nephew wanted one like that. They were all expensive and he didn't want to spend the money on a cow head. My sister noticed several of them were done by the same artist that did the picture Mom bought a long time ago. Sister thought it was a cow head, but instead it was just a couple of cows in a field near a barn. But the artist was the same because her new husband recognized the name. I don't remember the painting, never hung it on a wall while I was alive. Just been wrapped in cut up brown paper bags and stuck in the attic. I think the nephew story is crap. She didn't ask me about the painting until they got back from Nevada visiting the Sister that disowned the family and I only met once 35 years ago.

And my SIL that helped had to take a picture to so she didn't feel left out. It was a oriental etching of an old man's face with a rice patty in the background. She offered to give me two that were the same style my brother bought when stationed in Viet Nam, "she was going to throw them away." Oh but she had to have this one. People are so funny.

Did look up the artist of the cows and it's worth about $800. The oriental etching is about $50.

I sure liked what my Mom and her 2 sisters did when Grandma died. They had everything valued, added it all up, each sister got 1/3, and they bought the items they wanted from their third, then everything else was sold. The cash was distributed to by how much cash they each had left.