Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting Emily Laszuk pottery the penciled "G" showing through

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

The glass slides in horizontally to a three-sized frame on the backside

" Box measures 10 1/4" x 3 1/4" x 1 3/8"

perhaps preparing to get on her feet

There are more than a few old doll cradles out there

Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting Emily Laszuk pottery the penciled "G" showing throughTo 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