Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal inspirational figure

inspirational figure

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

Red Oak Hill

with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal inspirational figureI 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