Jim Kuhn (he/him)

Color cellphone photo: a square painting of angular shapes, some of them outlined in white piping, in tones of baby blue, yellow, red, and midnight blue. For sale at the Goodwill on North Lamar Boulevard, Austin Texas.

A cellphone photograph of a thrift store painting at the N. Lamar Goodwill (Austin TX), depicting a wide-eyed owl on a curlicue tree branch, surrounded by whirlpooly labyrinthine circles in various colors.

A color cellphone photo: a painting of a water lily floating on the gently dappled surface of a pond. This painting was available for purchase on 6 Aug 2025 at the Goodwill thrift store at 5555 N Lamar Blvd, Austin.

Thrift store paintings (N Lamar Goodwill, Austin TX)

A square color cellphone photo of a potted yellowing rose blossom, after dark on a backyard patio in Austin Texas

Night rose (Austin)

A square color cellphone photo of Tecoma stans, flowering (Austin TX).

Backyard yellow bell (Austin, Texas)

A square color cell phone photo of a potted yellow rose, damp and decaying after hot rains on an Austin Texas backyard.

A square high contrast black and white photograph of budding rose blossoms in a backyard pot, shot from the side.

A square color photograph of a yellow rose, blooming after rains on a patio in Austin, Texas.

Roses (Austin TX)

A square black and white cell phone photo of a dog on a couch with her sleepy chin on a pillow (again).

Couched

A square color cellphone photograph of a sunlit zinnia flower with spiderwebs, in an Austin TX backyard.

A square color cellular telephone photograph of a zinnia blossom (Austin Texas).

A square cellphone color photo of a cobwebbed zinnia blossom.

A square color cellphone photograph of a zinnia in an Austin Texas backyard garden.

Backyard zinnias (Austin Texas)

A square color cellphone photo of a dead white rose in the left foreground, with dead yellow roses behind, after dark and under porch lights on a back patio.

Dead roses, after dark

A square color cellphone photo of a yellow rose, after dark (Austin TX).

Night rose

A cellphone photo of a yellow lilly, in an Austin Texas backyard.

A cellphone photo of a magenta lilly, in an Austin Texas backyard.

A cellphone photo of a fuchsia zinnia, in an Austin Texas backyard.

Lilies & Zinnia

A cellphone photo of two saddled horses, signed “D. M[illegible],” taken at the Far West Boulevard Goodwill in Austin, Texas.

Thrift store painting (Far West Blvd Goodwill, Austin TX)

A cellphone photo of a flowering Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis), on a rainy day.

Desert willow (Austin TX)

A square color photograph of a sun dried and tanned rose blossom.

A square color photograph of a sun tanned and crunchy rose blossom.

Backyard roses (Austin TX)

A color photograph of a thrift store painting depicting a bright, variegated, yellow cloudy sky above a mottled green, red, orange, and beige line of rolling hills.

Thrift store painting (Far West Blvd Goodwill, Austin)

A square color photograph of a zinnia, after dark.

A square color photograph of a yellow rose, and frog, after dark.

Backyard flowers, after dark (Austin TX)

A square color photograph of a purple petaled zinnia.

A square color photograph of a yellow rose in bloom.

Backyard flowers (Austin TX)

A square color photograph of roses blooming in a sidewalk garden in New Haven, Connecticut.

Sidewalk roses (New Haven CT)

Headstone with dog and scroll: Albert Bacon Smith (16 Nov 1845 - 22 Feb 1848), Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Albert Bacon Smith (1845-1848) #grovestreetcemetery

Suzanne Phocas, Child with dog (1925-26). At the Yale University Art Gallery.

James Wooton, Releasing the hounds (ca. 1745). At the Yale Center for British Art.

Marco Ricci, Rehearsal of an opera (ca. 1709). At the Yale Center for British Art.

Arf

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Dog Guarding a Basket of Grapes (1836). At the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

Louis-Léopold Boilly, Portrait of Monsieur G. Giving his Daughter a Geography Lesson (1812). Detail, lower right corner, showing the family dog, facing the painter and viewer with a frank and open expression. At the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Arf

A bookplate depicting a woman (with a blank face) sitting under a tree reading a book (with blank pages). Text reads: “Ex Libris Janet Cuyler Newlin.” Pasted inside the front cover of: Otto F. Ege. Pre-Alphabet Days. Decorations and Frontispiece by Edward D. Edwards. (Baltimore: Norman T.A. Munder & Co., Inc., 1923).

Ex Libris Janet Cuyler Newlin

A chart from p. 7 of Otto F. Ege’s 1923 Pre-Alphabet Days. Decorations and Frontispiece by Edward D. Edwards. (Baltimore: Norman T.A. Munder & Co., Inc.).

Um, what? #ottoege

A square color photograph of a pink rose, backlit by the setting sun over the fence and trees.

Rose

A thrift store painting of a central bisected disc with five concentric arcs in baby blue, pink, beige, turquoise, and burgundy on an olive green field, with a royal blue dot in the lower right corner.

A thrift store painting of a man in a jacket and hat, with his right hand on his hip and gazing into a bay from a sun-dappled pier under a tree, as seen from inside an open gate in a vaulted opening in a tall stone wall.

Thrift store paintings (N Lamar Goodwill, Austin TX)

A color square photo of a blooming Cestrum aurantiacum (a.k.a. yellow cestrum or orange jessamine) in a backyard in Austin, Texas.

A color square photo of a spider-webbed wilting bloom of Phlomis fruticosa (a.k.a. Jerusalem sage) in a backyard in Austin, Texas.

A square color photo of a blooming stem of Conoclinium coelestinum (a.k.a. Blue Mistflower, Wild Ageratum, Blue Boneset) in a backyard in Austin, Texas.

A square color photo of a flowering stem of Salvia farinacea (a.k.a. Mealy Blue Sage, Mealycup Sage) in a backyard in Austin, Texas.

Blooms

A color square photo of a wilting yellow rose, partially obscured by a green leaf.

A color square photo of a blooming pink and yellow rose.

A color square photo of a wilting yellow rose blossom.

A color square photo of a blooming yellow rose.

Rosaceae

A square color photo of a crimson ditch lily.

A square color photo of a calla lily.

A square color photo of a blue mistflower.

A square color photo of a fuchsia swamp lily.

Dusk

A square color photo of a ref rose in profile, at dusk.

A square black and white high contrast photo of a white rose, from above.

A square color photo of a flowering yellow rose and an unopened blossom, from above.

Roses

A square color photo of a yellow rose in full bloom.

A square black and white photo of three dying roses.

A square black and white photo of a rose in full bloom.

Roses

Wassily Kandinsky, Hornform (1924). Oil on cardboard. At the Kimbell Art Museum’s traveling exhibit “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.”

Wassily Kandinsky, Hornform (1924). Oil on cardboard. #kimbellartmuseum

A thrift store painting at the Far West Goodwill, Austin TX. The matted watercolor depicts a shaded front porch with a yellow wall, fronted by a bed of blooming red tulips. Signed “Ann Sullivan.”

A thrift store painting at the Far West Goodwill (Austin TX), depicting a reclining miniature dachshund gazing off stage left. Signed “Glenda Brown ‘93.”

Thrift store paintings (Far West Goodwill, Austin TX)