Unsigned Oil on Board Portrait Over Landscape from the Circle of Wood Gaylor and Adelaide Lawson antique carved figuring Through all of these carefully

Through all of these carefully laid bits of wood

this vintage Japanese tea caddy is just about aesthetically perfect

I believe these may be early prototypes: there is a hand-painted signature on the bottom of one that says only "A"

There are postcard reproductions of her paintings out there

and altogether makes one want to find a good spot to display it--or perhaps better

Unsigned Oil on Board Portrait Over Landscape from the Circle of Wood Gaylor and Adelaide Lawson antique carved figuring Through all of these carefullyI think the highlight of July Brimfield for me was digging through a pile of paintings and watercolors by American artists Adelaide Lawson Gaylor (1889 1986) and Wood Gaylor (1883 1957), which has been acquired by the dealer from a one time neighbor of the couple on Long Island. I plucked a handful, signed and unsigned, including this wonderful unsigned portrait, which I love all the more for having been painted atop a horizontal landscape, with row