Ann, I do not know anything about the paintings or the location. However, I thought I'd offer a guess that may help in your investigations. It is possible that the signature is actually for the name "Zitka" (that blot which is consisten on both paintings, might stand for "a"). Zitka appears to be a rather common last name. If I were to guess, I'd place its origin to Eastern Europe, probably Czechia or maybe Slovakia.
While it might be a very long shot, based on that, I wonder if what is pictured is in Prague or Bratislava, both cities standing on rivers. With both cities being major tourtist destinations (especially Prague), it is quite conceivable that they were bought at one of the street markets from a local (possibly unknown) artist and brought into the US. HTH, Igor Fri Sep 7 11:11:07 EDT 2012 Ann Sanfedele wrote: > A pair of small watercolors - I'm hoping that the one on the left is of > a known location - I'm gathering in Europe somewhere.. It looks like > the signature is ZILK or ZTK or ZFk. > > > http://annsan.smugmug.com/Misceandvids/Things-Im-selling-directly-Not/6280507_84bVv7/1/2072317721_B8WZHPf/Large > > thanks, guys > > ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
