Perfectly Resolved c. 1930s Modernist Abstract Watercolor on Card Signed Castel decorative bowls Smiley attended the Dalton School

Smiley attended the Dalton School in New York

presently with a year round population of a dozen or so

or perhaps she is hiding something or someone behind her skirt

The Smithsonian Museum of Art (among many other institutions including the American Folk Art Museum) has a terrific collection of his work

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Perfectly Resolved c. 1930s Modernist Abstract Watercolor on Card Signed Castel decorative bowls Smiley attended the Dalton SchoolI have not definitively placed the Castel who signed this modernist watercolor, but they sure knew what they were doing and it seems very possible the artist in question is Moshe Castel (1909 1991, Israeli), who studied in Paris from the late 1920s through 1940, including at l'Ecole du Louvre. (There is a fair bit out there about him, and a museum in Jerusalem dedicated to his work.) I just think this is a small gem of a painting, certainly seeming to