Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal with Bread Book handwritten in

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

mentalist and musician who devised these (more about him below)--and to find no other sets of these trick cards anywhere out there

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

which make me wonder whether this was made as the front of a valentine

This is a beautiful

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal with Bread Book handwritten inI 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