Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal I know that is Hudson

I know that is Hudson River School and I am pretty certain 1830-1850 or so

This is a beautiful

with the identity of the particularly spirit described less through the form of the body but rather through the applied color and additional decoration (feathers

with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal I know that is HudsonI 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