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Monday, May 18, 2020

MASTERPIECE #2452

















Jules Breton, French

Yes, Julie Had a Backbreaking Job For Low Pay and No Chance For Upward Mobility. But Hey, It Could Be Worse. She Could Be Graduating in the Spring of 2020, 1860

Oil on canvas

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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

MASTERPIECE #2352























Albert Anker, Swiss

 I Will Not Respond When Spoken To With 'OK, Boomer.'
I Will Not Respond When Spoken To With 'OK, Boomer.'
I Will Not Respond When Spoken To With 'OK, Boomer'..., 1879

Oil on canvas

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Monday, October 14, 2019

MASTERPIECE #2307
















Gustave Caillebotte, French

Today's "That Is Priceless" Masterpiece Is Brought To You By the Letter "h," 1877

Pastel

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 8:50 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

MASTERPIECE #2298























Moritz Stifter, Austrian

"Yeah Thanks, Miss, But I Already Know How Babies Are Made. Can I Just Have My Sausage Please?," 1889

Oil on wood

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:43 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

MASTERPIECE #2283















Max Rabes, German

Jill Knew If She Hoped To Make It in the Competitive World of Nude Modeling, She'd Have to Spend Every Waking Moment Working Toward Her PhD, 1923

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 8:01 PM   1 Comments

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

MASTERPIECE #2192













Winslow Homer, American

Little Jimmy Putting To Use What He Learned in Anchor Management Class This Week, 1873

Watercolor, gouache, and graphite

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 8:13 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

MASTERPIECE #2157






















Alexei Korin, Russian

"Ugh, She's Still Not Getting the Whole Math Thing.  I Know It's Early, But Do You Have the Number of That Guy Felicity Huffman Was Talking About?," 1891

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:15 PM   0 Comments

Monday, December 3, 2018

MASTERPIECE #2093



















Eugene von Blaas, Italian

Elizabeth Needed 500 Hours of Practice To Get Her Massage Therapist's License, So She Couldn't Afford To Be Picky When It Came To Volunteers, ca. 1910

Oil on canvas

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Monday, March 5, 2018

MASTERPIECE #1902























Adalbert Franz Seligmann, Austrian

"Ugh, All This Screaming Is Giving Me a Headache.  Can One of You Go Check To See If Anybody's Invented Anesthesia Yet?," ca. 1890

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:17 PM   0 Comments

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1810

















Friedrich Ritter von Friedländer-Malheim, Bohemian-Austrian

Bill Clinton, Making Good Use of His New Nursing Degree, 1870

Oil on panel

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 6:48 PM   0 Comments

Monday, October 9, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1799














Jean-Léon Gérôme, French

Okay, So It Wasn't the New York City Ballet, But To Heather, All Those Years at Juilliard Were Still Totally Worth It, 1863

Oil on panel

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Monday, March 27, 2017

MASTERPIECE #1673
















William George Stephen, British

"I'm Not Going To Lie To You -- It's a Fixer-Upper.  But You Can't Beat the School District," 1812

Watercolor

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 7:27 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, December 15, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1602














Vicente Castell Doménech, Spanish

Surgical Demonstration at Beard State University Medical School, 1898

Oil on canvas

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Monday, October 17, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1560















Jefferson David Chalfant, American

Students Taking Midterm for Figure Drawing 101 (Introduction to Boobs and Buttocks), 1891

Oil on panel

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 8:29 PM   0 Comments

Thursday, June 2, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1466























Berthold Woltze, German

German High Schooler Just Finding Out She Got Into Stuttgart State (Go Rams!), 1860

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 9:20 PM   2 Comments

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1465























Adalbert Seligmann, Austrian

 "So That's How You Do a Butt Implant, Gentlemen.  Trust Me, That's Going to Come in Handy One Day," 1890

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 8:36 PM   2 Comments

Monday, February 1, 2016

MASTERPIECE #1375























Ralph Hedley, English

Friend Helping Timmy Untie the Bathroom Pass, 1899

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 9:36 PM   0 Comments

Saturday, January 24, 2015

MASTERPIECE #1135


















Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch

Anatomy Lecture at Antwerp Medical School for the Blind, 1632

Oil on canvas

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Sunday, January 18, 2015

MASTERPIECE #1130






















Rudolf Ernst, Austro-French

Bear Forced to Dance on the Pole to Help Pay for College, 1884

Oil on panel

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 10:53 PM   0 Comments

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

MASTERPIECE #866























Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French

Kitchen Maid Now Wondering If Maybe That Goldman Internship Was the Smarter Move, 1738

Oil on canvas

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posted by Steve Melcher @ 12:01 AM   1 Comments