Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY 18th century wrought iron A box this size with

A box this size with this level of ornamentation I believe would likely have been used for serving guests

I believe there were once a total of twelve in the set

carved from one piece of wood with the bark left on it

a signature

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY 18th century wrought iron A box this size withI 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