Antiques Roadshow

GUEST

A few years ago, my husband and I bought a house with the contents, and this was up in the attic.

APPRAISER

It's an oil on board by Alfred Sessler. He was a Wisconsin artist, born in Milwaukee, and ended up at the University of Madison as an art professor. This was done in 1950. He was an art student during the Depression, and that really affected his work. As you can see here, he's depicting a worker, and he was often depicting the common man or the struggle of the laborer class. He was a muralist. He worked for the federal works projects, and did a lot of prints with the WPA. I would say at auction, this one would be about $2,000 to $3,000, very conservatively. Alone, a Heydenryk frame would be in the several hundred-dollar range, so added to the value of the painting, you're looking more at about $2,500 to $3,500.

GUEST

(laughs): That's fantastic.