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Norma Wallace has been far from art collectors' attention since the seventies. Her cycle "Flowers", originally serialised in Art Quarterly (III, 1953), then featured in the 1955 Travelling Club Art Show, was forgotten. All that changed last year, when the world saw the images of her small set of canvasses, featured in the Tate Liverpool triennial. There are many less famous and yet aesthetically pleasing works too, like the series "The Devil's Doormats". Taken in 1963, the softly fuzzy collages were created from a set of shots by Norma in a south Chicago backstreet where she used to live at the time. Another neglected artist that deserves more attention is Alfred Galliano, from Akron. His warped, almost abstract cityscapes bring a peculiar visual life to familiar topics. Other works focus on loneliness and senseless absence, but also in the minor paintings his blurry images will ultimately draw you in. His artwork is more sinister than the norm for genre artists, and expecially today Galliano is a smart choice for collectors to see up close. Some of the compositions seem sort of formulaic, but at the end we meet very unconventional, often stunning pieces. I can't believe I didn't recognize J. Vaughn Markley's parody of "Billionaires' boulevard". The last painter of this episode is Gisella Kotze, the most successful of the trio. Here we present some works from 1940 to 1962. Her career peaked during the years of World War II, when she did one or more exhibitions annually, in Paris and New York, and produced a well-known series of oil paintings on views of the cities of New York and Baltimore. All the works of that period show the modern, unsettling quality that characterizes her work. Today she is best known for her latest, more abstract paintings. Gisella Kotze quit her career abruptly in 1969, after failing to make any progress in her style. She died at the age of 88 on 8 December 2003, after being diagnosed with dementia.