Amazing Women
by Mary Golay
Byzantine Woman
1917 Golays imaginitive dream princess.An Enigmatic female artist, an utter devotee to the precepts of Art Nouveau and all the splendid excesses which that entails, tenderly guides us into the heart of some idyllically-filigreed garden, one where its difficult to discern precisely where natural elements begin and decorative ones end. Although the word of this panel exists nowhere outside of Golays imagination, the richly appointed, pearl-draped dream princess breathes in the essence of the surrounding lilies, and in the process, draws us along with her into a world where melancholy and splendor intermingle at will.