Author: Steve Melcher

Mary Cassatt, American

It Was No Use. Katie’s Mother Was Simply Too Heavy To Flip Over Her Shoulder. She Was Going To Have To Come Up With Something Else For the Preschool Talent Show, ca. 1900

Oil on canvas

Carl Von Merode, Austrian

All Conversation Stops at the Senior Center’s Book Club When “The Golden Bachelor” Comes On, 1884

Oil on panel

Édouard Manet, French

Portrait of the Artist’s Grape-Grandmother, ca. 1862

Oil on canvas

John Singleton Copley, American

The Artist’s Son With His Emotional Support Squirrel, 1771

Oil on canvas

Édouard Manet, French

“Just To Clarify, Russ. Yesterday I Asked If Your Wife Was Cool With Eating TAPAS For Lunch, Not Topless. But This Works For Me,” 1863

Oil on canvas

Johann Hamza, German

“It Says Corporate Has Decided To Pivot. From Now On, Instead of a Build-A-Bear Workshop, We’re a Build-An-Ostrich Workshop,” 1902

Oil on wood

Paul Fischer, Danish

“It’s Not Important Whose Fault It Is That Our Clothes Got Swept Out To Sea While We Were Napping. The Point Is One of Us Now Has To Walk Into Town and Somehow Barter For Towels. Not It!,” 1924

Oil on canvas