Jay Troyer

Never to return, but always here

Barbara Regina Dietzsch, Bavarian (1706-1783), Greenfinch, c. 1750, gouache, 28.8 x 20.9 cm

Francisco de Zurbaran, Spanish (1598-1664), St. Francis of Assisi in his Tomb, 1630-34, oil on canvas, 204.79 x 113.35 cm, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

My room has two doors
And one window.
One door is red and the other is gray.
I cannot open the red door;
The gray door does not interest me.
Having no choice,
I shall lock them both
And look out of the window.
- Kay Sage

Kay Sage, American (1898-1963), My Room Has Two Doors, 1939, oil on canvas, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Poem by Sage in comments

James Tissot, French (1836-1902), October, 1877, oil on canvas, 216.5 x 108.7 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Sculptor: Louis Chalon, French (1866-1940), caster: C. Louchet, F (1854-1936), enameller: E. Feuillâtre, F (1870-1916), ceramicist: A. A. Lamarre, F (1837-1912), Dragonfly Fairy and Frog Art Nouveau Vase, 1898, hard-paste porcelain, enamel, bronze, gilding, Virginia Museum of FA, Richmond, USA

Nihad Al Turk, Syrian (1972- ), Cluster, 2014, mixed media on canvas, 147 x 147 cm, private collection

Édouard Vuillard, French (1868-1940), Garden at Vaucresson, 1920, reworked 1926, 1935, 1936, distemper on canvas, 151.1 x 110.8 cm, The Met, New York City, New York, USA

Joseph Heintz the Younger, German (1600-1678), The Alchemist, 1650, oil on canvas, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Paul Kauzmann, German (1874-1951), Morgensonne (Morning Sun), 1915, oil on canvas, 97 x 67 cm, private collection

Cornelius Annor, Ghanaian (1990- ), Card Players, 2022, acrylic, fabric and fabric transfer on canvas, 212 x 151 cm, private collection

Karl Michael Haider, German (1846-1912), Moorlandschaft, 1869, canvas, 54 x 71 cm, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Germany

Victor Lagye, Belgian (1825-1896), Children and Their Mother Visiting a Toy Seller at a Market, oil on mahogany panel, 55 x 70 cm, private collection

John Mayall
Napping between gigs.
Flamingo Club, Soho, 1966
Photo: Daily Mirror
#SundayMood

Albert Oehlen, German (1954- ), Aale im Saragossa-Meer (Eels in the Sargasso Sea), 1981, oil and spray paint on canvas, 50.3 x 62.3 cm, private collection

Agreed!

Alejandro Cardenas, Chilean (1977- ), Field Walk, 2020, acrylic on canvas, in artist's frame, 103.5 x 83 cm, private collection

Digital painting. A purple star with an eye in the middle.

The season is upon us!

The Rapidity of Sleep (1945) by Yves Tanguy

🖼️ Yves Tanguy, The Rapidity of Sleep (1945)

Anatoliy Misiuk :
Autumn Breath, 2022,
Lviv, Ukraine

You're welcome, Meesh

Harry Clarke, Irish (1889-1931), Deep, Deep, and For Ever, into some Ordinary and Nameless Grave, from The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1919

Paul Kelpe, German-American (1902-1985), Machinery (Abstract #2), 1933-34, oil on canvas, 97.0 x 67.0 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

Caspar David Friedrich, German (1774-1840), Die Lebensstufen (The Stages of Life), c. 1834, oil on canvas, 72.5 x 94 cm, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

Pierre Soulages, French (1919-2022),
Lithograph No 33, 1974, lithograph printed in shades of blue, 1974, 11/95, on Arches wove paper, image: 52.3 x 45.8 cm, sheet: 74.4 x 55.8 cm, private collection

Suzanne Valadon, French (1865-1938), Lilacs and Camellias, 1936, oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.4 cm, private collection

Edward Hopper, American (1882-1967), The Latham Family Home, Maine, 1927, watercolor on paper, 24.8 x 32.1 cm, private collection

Mary Whyte, American (1953- ), Paper Angel, 2009, watercolor on paper, 23.5 x 15.5 in, private collection