Yeah, there's not much of a backstory to this one I'm afraid. I found it at the back of a thrift shop and couldn't decide whether it was really good or really not so much. You might be right with the starving artist thing. Quite frankly, I have a very bad habit of collecting starving artist art. I'm running out of walls to hang them on.
I don't get many landscape pieces though, so I'm not familar with what to look for. I mainly scrounge up old Japanese brushwork, so this was a pretty different buy for me.
Thanks for the help, but I guess I might just not have enough to go by. I've searched different arrangements of letters that the name might be too, but with no luck. Maybe M. something? Not sure, but it's been a fun hunt!