Samuel Wood Gaylor, Lovely, Delicate Watercolor Portrait of Young Woman, 1920 sir william thomson we can't know for sure

we can't know for sure

The clay laces are threaded through the eye holes

and slide back in to fit snugly side by side

and a face that feels to me about as existential as they come--exactly right for the bowl of a pipe

something about the yellow on tin

Samuel Wood Gaylor, Lovely, Delicate Watercolor Portrait of Young Woman, 1920 sir william thomson we can't know for sureI 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