Author: Steve Melcher

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

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

Jean Baptiste Leopold Colin, Belgian

“I’m Sorry, Sweetheart, But We’re Not Allowed To Build a Sandcastle in This Part of the Beach. It’s a Zoning Issue,” 1917

Oil on panel

 

Otto Kirberg, German

Woman Watching the Powerball Drawing Back When It Was the Steam Powerball Drawing, 1918

Oil on canvas