Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting Emily Laszuk pottery but I am not certain

but I am not certain

there are two lines of text that despite my best efforts I cannot entirely decipher

and all the paint still well in tact

I've never though about wearing a screwdriver around my neck

the penciled "G" showing through the "T" in painting) makes it seem anything but an effective advertisement for a "job painter"--I think I would quite like the person who made it

Elusive Man with Beard, Mid-Century Oil Painting Emily Laszuk pottery but I am not certainTo me, there is something so right about this elusive portrait, painted by an artist unknown to me, but which I know dates to the 1960s or so. Thinly painted on what I believe is an unprimed linen panel board, it seems to me both about the materiality and constructed illusory nature of painting itself and also about the subject himself, doubly veiled in a sense by the painter's treatment, and by his great beard! Hovering in a sort of liminal space, it