Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal Horses appear in all but

Horses appear in all but one—either out on a hunt or pulling a carriage or on a trek through the countryside

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

This is a beautiful

Looking closely (with magnification)

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

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal Horses appear in all butI 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