Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal Horses appear in all but

Horses appear in all but one—either out on a hunt or pulling a carriage or on a trek through the countryside

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

with my rudimentary translation giving me the last name  Uamajasi--a name which I have found a couple of references to as Naujaat

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

Looking closely (with magnification)

Marguerite Evans Issacs, Large Mid-Century Oil on Masonite "Aerial View" Woodstock NY meatal Horses appear in all butI 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