Marvelous Gravel Painting of Horse in Landscape with Rope Border incan with head stretched gracefully forward

with head stretched gracefully forward

One can never have enough pretty small plates -- they're great for cocktail parties

I purchased a pair of these vintage 1980s Memphis Design-syle ceramic pins at the estate sale of an artist--this one black and white

The sculpture measures 16 1/4" tall

This is about the most refined and beautifully made brush I've come across

Marvelous Gravel Painting of Horse in Landscape with Rope Border incan with head stretched gracefully forwardI've been thinking about this piece, and especially about that white horse ethereally floating between earth and sky in front of that bushy tree, since the moment I saw it (at the Wellesley, MA estate sale of artist Lois Gross Smiley). I am doubtful this is a piece she made, though I don't know for sure but I'd say she had a pretty terrific eye in choosing it and keeping it near! Whoever its maker, I think they elevated the kitschy medium of colored