Wood Gaylor • Bernard Goldberg Fe Arts

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. 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.

ROBERT GAYLOR

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. 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.

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

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. 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.

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Gaylor submted his then-Imprsnist-style patgs and two were accepted. Gaylor beme a lifelong iend and facilator for the more volatile Kuhn — who seems to have liked live performance as much as patg — and helped him spearhead the Pengu, an artists’ group that remaed active to the early Gaylor and Bernard Goldberg Fe Arts, LLC, New YorkAt the Heckscher, Gaylor’s teemg, gregar portrayals of life and around the Pengu pture 11 of the artists sketchg close by a wood-burng stove ( a lively ltle 1917 gouache), elaborate panoramas of stume balls and ctns oil on nvas. Gaylor and two other men lift one of the posters.

He appears to be teachg them an souciant move that Twyla Tharp might Gaylor and Flemg Mm of Art, Universy of VermontWhile progrsive as artists, the Pengu men lived up to the misogynist standards of their time: There were no female members, although women sometim exhibed their shows, and anyone who bought a ticket uld attend an arts ball. The label intifi the dancers as the paters Isabel Bishop and Regald Gaylor and Bernard Goldberg Fe Arts, LLCGaylor’s flat figur reflect his attentn to the styl of Europeans like Ggu and Puvis Chavann, and to folk art, which he llected while summerg Mae durg the 1920s. Most obvly there is Gaylor’s love of le and sign enuraged by his work wh patterns opposed to Stettheimer’s more tuive way of patg.

Gaylor’s surfac are matte and smooth, his figur exu a rtoonish classicism, and his om-the-tube saturated palette of reds, greens and sgg blu evoke Renaissance patg.

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

Gaylor was foced on actual events. Gaylor and Bernard Goldberg Fe ArtsGaylor has had a relatively long obscury. It may not have helped that 1934, he and his wife, Alai Lawson Gaylor, also an artist, moved wh their three children to Glenwood Landg on Long Island, or that the early 1940s he stopped patg for a .

Fast forward through more than a half-century of near visibily, to 2020, when the Goldberg gallery showed two Gaylors at the Wter Show. The Heckscher Mm’s curator, Karli Wurzelbacher, expand the exhibn to clu 16 artworks by Gaylor’s peers. Ours seems like a much better time for Wood Gaylor’s quietly dazzlg achievement to fally sk Gaylor and Amerin MornismThrough May 23, Heckscher Mm of Art, 2 Prime Avenue, Huntgton, N.