Art By Gaylor

Contents:

• CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT OF THE AIR FORCE ROBERT D. GAYLOR
• ROBERT GAYLOR
• WOOD GAYLOR, QUIETLY DAZZLG, HELPED AN ART WORLD INVENT ITSELF
• ROBERT GAYLOR
• LET’S HAVE A BALL! WOOD GAYLOR AND THE NEW YORK ART SCENE, 1913–1936

CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT OF THE AIR FORCE ROBERT D. GAYLOR

Gaylor was adviser to Secretary of the Air Force John C. Chief Gaylor was born Bellevue, Iowa; however, most of his youth was spent Indiana.

ROBERT GAYLOR

Durg Chief Gaylor's secury police years, his early assignments were at Jam Connally Air Force Base, Texas; Laredo Air Force Base, Texas; Kunsan Air Base, Korea; Tachikawa Air Base, Japan; Columb Air Force Base, Miss. Chief Gaylor was an honor graduate of Class 65B of the Send Air Force Nonmissned Officer (NCO) Amy at Barksdale.

WOOD GAYLOR, QUIETLY DAZZLG, HELPED AN ART WORLD INVENT ITSELF

Followg a secury police tour at Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, Chief Gaylor returned to Barksdale and assisted reopeng the SAC NCO Amy. In July 1971 Chief Gaylor transferred to Headquarters Uned Stat Air Forc Europe (USAFE), where he traveled to USAFE bas teachg management techniqu.

In September 1974 Chief Gaylor was assigned to the Air Force Milary Personnel Center, where he traveled extensively as a management and learship stctor. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTCric’s PicksTwo shows troduce a fotten novator who fed mornism, folk art and documentary to portray his beloved New York Gaylor and The Heckscher Mm of ArtHUNTINGTON, N. — In the early s of the 20th-century, thgs happened the New York art world when paters like Walt Kuhn, Flore Stettheimer and Wood Gaylor took matters to their own hands.

ROBERT GAYLOR

They found — and llected — new sourc of spiratn, cludg 19th-century Amerin folk art, s simple forms and strong lors spirg them wh homegrown precents for some of mornism’s signal Gaylor and The Heckscher Mm of ArtGaylor, a ltle-known Amerin pater (1883-1957) who is only now fdg his place art history, participated all the velopments and he rerd many of them bright, antic fx-naïve oil patgs of refully outled figur and settgs.

Roughly a century after they were ma, the ebullient, nsely populated scen — a hybrid of folk art, morn art and documentary — form the beatg heart of the artist’s first retrospective at the Heckscher Mm of Art at Bernard Goldberg Fe Arts Manhattan, a send Gaylor show rounds out his subject matter wh a portra of the boxer Jack Johnson a red robe, views of a 14th Street movie theater and barets, as well as large pencil drawgs wh which he plotted his patgs, exactly and at actual size. Gaylor and The Heckscher Mm of ArtA genial man wh a talent for anizg thgs, Gaylor worked well wh others and didn’t md toilg behd the scen.

He was born Samuel Wood Gaylor Stamford, Conn., and survived a somewhat rocky childhood.

LET’S HAVE A BALL! WOOD GAYLOR AND THE NEW YORK ART SCENE, 1913–1936

Gaylor memorated one of the happit perds of his childhood — when he was 5 and his parents ran a hotel and bar on Stevens Pot Darien, Conn.

It shows a big by barroom whose varied habants (cludg the young artist, holdg a ad duck) all seem fixed on : a big puddle at the bottom of the picture suggts that someone has jt been blown doors by a Gaylor and Bernard Goldberg Fe Arts, LLCIn 1901, when he was 17, Gaylor left home and found work as a signer for New York’s pattern pani — startg wh Butterick.

Gaylor submted his then-Imprsnist-style patgs and two were accepted.