THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #259 (12/31/10) Gustave Courbet, French Travelers Stopping to Insult Each Other’s Beards, 1854 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1976 George Paul Chalmers, Scottish The Reverend Robert Hutchison, With the Bible He Just Found in His Beard, 1876 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1926 Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss “Sir, I Want You To Take a Good Look at These Suspects, and Tell Me If You See the Man Who Stole Your Razor. Take Your Time,” 1892 Oil tempera on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1726 Benjamin Heinrich Orth, German 19th Century Folk Rock Supergroup Crosby, Stills & Neckbeard, 1835 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1602 Vicente Castell Doménech, Spanish Surgical Demonstration at Beard State University Medical School, 1898 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1417 Salomon Koninck, Dutch Scholar Finding Piece of Thursday’s Breakfast Burrito in Beard, 1649 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #1272 Konstantin Makovsky, Russian Leo Tolstoy, Just Doing a Little Modeling Until the “War and Peace” Royalty Checks Arrive, 1858 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #803 Henrik Weber, Hungarian Composer Mihaly Mosonyi, Whose Beard Has Given His Wife Fleas, 1840 Oil on canvas