Marvelous Gravel Painting of Horse in Landscape with Rope Border incan 35ʺW × 8ʺD × 1

35ʺW × 8ʺD × 1

holding his favorite cat Tyke

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

with head stretched gracefully forward

Marvelous Gravel Painting of Horse in Landscape with Rope Border incan 35ʺW × 8ʺD × 1I'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