Samuel Wood Gaylor, Lovely, Delicate Watercolor Portrait of Young Woman, 1920 stoneware plates sculptural hair do

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It remains housed in its original box (though with one edge lost and a repaired split in the lid) as well as with five hand-colored plates showing the pictures on each side

with the string unwound enough to pass under the paws of all of them

who had an incredible collection of vintage dolls from around the world

Samuel Wood Gaylor, Lovely, Delicate Watercolor Portrait of Young Woman, 1920 stoneware plates sculptural hair doI think the highlight of July Brimfield for me was digging through a pile of paintings and watercolors by American artists Samuel Wood Gaylor (1883 1957) and Adelaide Lawson Gaylor (1889 1986), which had 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 very lovely, delicate watercolor portrait on paper signed by Wood Gaylor, dated 1920 emblematic of his