Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting Emily Laszuk pottery and all the paint still

and all the paint still well in tact

I've never though about wearing a screwdriver around my neck

the penciled "G" showing through the "T" in painting) makes it seem anything but an effective advertisement for a "job painter"--I think I would quite like the person who made it

KS in 2008

Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting Emily Laszuk pottery and all the paint stillTo me, there is something so right about this elusive portrait, painted by an artist unknown to me, but which I know dates to the 1960s or so. Thinly painted on what I believe is an unprimed linen panel board, it seems to me both about the materiality and constructed illusory nature of painting itself and also about the subject himself, doubly veiled in a sense by the painter's treatment, and by his great beard! Hovering in a sort of liminal space, it