THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #1953 (5/16/18) August Knoop, German Mortimer Had the Annoying Habit of Refusing To Look at His Cards Until After He’d Tried To Read Them Telepathically, 1894 Oil on wood
THROWBACK FRIDAY: MASTERPIECE #1350 (11/25/15) Jean-Léon Gérôme, French Geppetto, Having Recently Expanded Into Sex Dolls, 1890 Oil on canvas
THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2252 (7/26/19) Albert Anker, Swiss “‘Dolores May Have Been 85, But She Had the Body of a 75-Year-Old, and She Knew How To Use It…’ Um, Are You Sure I Should Be Reading This, Grandpa?,” 1893 Oil on canvas
THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #94 (2/8/11) John Singleton Copley, American The Artist’s Mother, Reminiscing About Banging Ben Franklin, 1771 Oil on canvas
THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #405 (11/21/10) Jan Matejko, Polish Hogwarts Student Inadvertently Spying Professor McGonagall Naked, 1872 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2315 Vasily Pukirev, Russian “I’m Sorry, Miss, But You Have To Actually Say the Words ‘or For Poorer’ or the Whole Thing Doesn’t Count,” 1862 Oil on canvas
MASTERPIECE #2222 Friedrich Ritter von Friedländer-Malheim, Bohemian-Austrian The Johnsons Couldn’t Wait To Try Out Their New Virtual Grandpaâ„¢, If Only They Could Figure Out Where To Put the Batteries, 1882 Oil on panel
MASTERPIECE #2138 Hans Heinrich Bebie, Swiss “Here’s a Good One For You, Grandpa. ‘Single White Female Seeks Sugar Daddy With a Ben Franklin Vibe,'” ca. 1852 Oil on panel
MASTERPIECE #2109 Eastman Johnson, American “What Does She Mean By ‘Thank You, Next?’ And More Importantly, How the Heck Did You Get Spotify on That Thing?,” 1875 Oil on paperboard
A PRICELESS CLASSIC (2013) Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French Not What I Meant When I Said Grandpa Needs Full-Time Nursing, 1767 Oil on canvas