Author: Steve Melcher

Egon Schiele, Austro-Hungarian

For Scott and Tammy, the Low Point of Their Son’s Birthday Party Was Losing at Strip Pin the Tail on the Donkey, 1918

Oil on canvas

Mark Gertler, British

Kimberly Demonstrating Her Newly Discovered Hack For Getting Seated Faster at Restaurants, 1924

Oil on canvas

Henry Alexander, American

Today’s Experiment: Studying the Effect of Alcohol on One’s Bitterness at Being Snubbed For the Nobel Prize AGAIN, ca. 1885-87

Oil on canvas

Workshop of François Gérard, French

Napoleon With the Backscratcher He Won Playing Skeeball, ca. 1805-15

Oil on canvas

Karl Wiener, Austrian

Tanya Made a Mental Note To Replace the Bulb on the Left Side of Her Tanning Bed, 1938

Gouache on paperboard

Karl Ernst Papf, Brazilian

Looking Back at Old Family Photos, There Were Unmistakable Clues As To Which Child Would One Day Become an ENT, 1886

Oil on canvas

Alfred Henry Maurer, American

For Some Strange Reason, Alfred Could Never Get the Same Model To Pose For Him Twice, ca. 1929

Oil on fiberboard

Thomas Buchanan Read, American

Well, So Much For Hal and Helen’s Date Night. Guess the New Sex Toys Will Have To Wait, 1847

Oil on canvas