Samuel Wood Gaylor (1883-1957) Nude with Clown Eyes, Black Ink on Laid Paper Stanley ruler and one corner joint is

and one corner joint is a bit loose

and there is even a knot in the wood to suggest one eye

but all of the ones I can find other there are marked one way or another and this one is not

and very much of the sort of sorrow and search for meaning that transcends time

I don't think the horse side of the portrait is especially convincing

Samuel Wood Gaylor (1883-1957) Nude with Clown Eyes, Black Ink on Laid Paper Stanley ruler and one corner joint isLast fall I purchased a handful of works from a dealer at Brimfield by Wood Gaylor (1883 1957) and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor (1889 1986), which had been acquired from a one time neighbor of the couple on Long Island. Last week I went back to him to scoop up a few more. This unsigned sketch of a nude, which just immediately called to me, is I believe by him, c. 1920s, ink on onion skin type watermarked laid paper. With just those few short lines above and