Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal This is a beautiful

This is a beautiful

with the identity of the particularly spirit described less through the form of the body but rather through the applied color and additional decoration (feathers

Horses appear in all but one—either out on a hunt or pulling a carriage or on a trek through the countryside

It's June as I post this--the time of the year when I want cut flowers in every room--and this pitcher is 100% perfect for a big bunch of peonies

Looking closely (with magnification)

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal This is a beautifulI purchased this one from the estate of an artist near me I don't do a lot with mid century art, but this painting struck me, and got better and better the more I looked at it. Skillfully done, with a complex and viscerally satisfying surface as well as a certain elusiveness that keeps me looking and looking again. Signed on the back Marguerite Evans Isaacs, Woodstock NY, and titled "Aerial View" which makes perfect sense; perhaps that blue is the