Jean Cocteau, Stravinsky at the Piano, 1913, pencil and ink on paper in custom-made gold gilt frame

The Art of War (Clever huh?): England in WW1

The Art of War (Clever huh?): England in WW1

Architecture for the blog of it: Ulrich Franzen

Architecture for the blog of it: Ulrich Franzen

Alexandre Benois, Set model for Les Sylphides, 1909, gouache, watercolor, pencil and chalk on card, with bamboo supports,

George Stubbs, Captain Samuel Sharpe Pocklington with His Wife, Pleasance, and possibly His Sister, Frances, 1769, oil on canvas

Giorgio de Chirico, Conversation among the Ruins, 1927, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art

High Line VI by Christine Beneman

Kerry James Marshall Study for Visible Means of Support Monticello, 2008, acrylic on PVC panel

Léon Bakst, set design (Act I) from Daphnis and Chloe 1912, watercolor, gouache and pencil with gold and silver highlighting, Les Arts Décoratifs, musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris

Thomas de Keyser, Portrait of a Gentleman Wearing a Fancy Ruff 1627, oil on copper, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, 2012

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Building Mt. Rushmore

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Building Mt. Rushmore

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: yeah, I know but it is sculpture

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: yeah, I know but it is sculpture

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: By jean pierre augier

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: By jean pierre augier

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert

The Art of War (Clever huh?): Soviets in space

The Art of War (Clever huh?): Soviets in space

Art for the Pop of It: I love this

Art for the Pop of It: I love this

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Ange Laurent de La Live de Jully, probably 1759, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946

Jacques-Louis David

Gustave Caillebotte, Skiffs 1877, oil on canvas, collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985

Green River Cliffs, Wyoming 1881 thomas moran

Giovanni Paolo Panini

Ginevra de' Benci c. 1474 1478 Da Vinci

Georges Braque! Harbor, 1909

Degas!

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl reading 1770

Pandora, 1910 1912 Redon

Ronnie Cutrone

Rouen Cathedral, West Façade, 1894 monet

Self-Portraits

The Voyage of Life Youth, thomas cole

Walnut oil

In spite of the high cost of walnut oil, Renaissance painters considered it as vital oil for their trade. Jan van Eyck and Peter Paul Reubens attested to the oil's anti-aging properties that endowed their artwork with greater endurance. 

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: François Xavier Lalanne

Sculpture This and Sculpture That: François Xavier Lalanne

Otto Muehl

Alex Colville

Raoul de Keyser

Vincent van Gogh, La Mousmé, 1888, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963

Willi Sitte

Edvard Munch

Gangsters, Jack Levine

Sarah Alice Toohey, The Brooklyn Museum

Jacob Kainen, born Waterbury Ct.