Jacqueline Ayer Nu Dang and his Kite 1959 lovely bold blocks of colour with elegant line work.
Born in 1930s New York to Edward and Thelma Brandford, a graphic artist and dressmaker, Jacqueline Ayer was surrounded by her parent's friends; artists poets and musicians and went to the New York Art Students League before going on to study Fine Art at Syracuse University and then further studies in Paris at Beaux Artes and Ecole Paul Colin. Jacqueline illustrated for Vogue and worked alongside Andy Warhol before moving to Thailand with her husband in the 1950s.
"It was the children that facinated me Nu Dang was first inspired by our boatmans son who would come along on our river jaunts. I have tried to show the varoety of people that live on and from the river, the Indians, Chinese, Malayans and the Thais of course. The more prosperous city boys and girls in their starched blacks and whites, the saronged children of the paddy farmers and fishermen, the merchants and the river vendors. I have tried to show to as acurate a picture as possible without romanticising. I only hope the reader will understand through Nu Dang that children are very much the same everywhere." Jacqueline Ayer
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