Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape Renwick gallery and just oozing with a

and just oozing with a sprightly mischievousness

There is one very very tiny chip around the lip of the platter

postmarked 1911

I recently found several of these first edition WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) puzzles

Mid-Century Studio Pottery Plate with Abstracted Nude in Landscape Renwick gallery and just oozing with aI LOVE the figure on the face of this plate, strangely and evocatively elongated like a late day shadow, and with these two wonderfully trailing inky black lines lending just a bit of definition and also tension. It makes me think of everything from the paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder to those of de Chirico to the work of Ana Mendieta to the early 20th century photographs of Anne Brigman (look her up!), and Arts & Crafts era craft, too, and I've