Portrait of Oscar Brousse Jacbonson

AI-generated image. Contemporary digital construction. Not a work by Charles Banks Wilson.

Recognition Without Evidence

Does this image register for you because it resembles a known portrait — or because it activates the visual language you associate with a regional artist…Charles Banks Wilson?

If no documented portrait by Wilson of Oscar B. Jacobson exists in your memory, why does the image nevertheless feel plausible?

At what point does stylistic familiarity begin to substitute for evidence — and how often does that substitution guide recognition, attribution, and collecting in American Regionalist art?