Author: Steve Melcher

Giulio del Torre, Italian

“Behavior Problem” Jason Bourne On the Playground, 1927

Oil on panel 

Harold Harvey, British

“Honey, Come Back! You Forgot Your Underpants!,” ca. 1902

Oil on canvas

George Bellows, American

Why Front-Row Seats at Boxing Matches Are the Cheapest, 1924

Oil on canvas

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, English

“Romeo and Juliet” (the Version Where Romeo Has a Kite), Date Unknown

Oil on canvas

William McGregor Paxton, American

The Artist’s Wife, Just Before She Was Asked To Leave the Nordstrom’s, Date Unknown

Oil on masonite

Suzanne Valadon, French

When You Said You Knew a Smokin’ Model I Could Paint, This Isn’t What I Thought You Meant, 1923

Oil on canvas

Jacques Jean Raoul Jourdan, French

“Are We Going To Just Sit Here and Waste Day After Day in a Pointless Life of Leisure? Or Get a Job and Actually Do Something Meaningful With Our Lives?”

“The First One.”

“Works For Me.”

Before 1916

Oil on canvas

 

Julio Romero de Torres, Spanish

Still Life With Four Oranges and a Pair, 1927

Oil and tempera on canvas

Hans von Faber du Faur, German

“Dude, Seriously? A Man Thong? It’s 1920. Read the Room,” 1920

Gouache on cardboard

H.A. Brendekilde, Danish

Man Playing Beta Version of Whack-A-Mole, 1918

Oil on canvas