Leon Herschtritt, West Berliners waving to relatives across the Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961.

Jennifer Jokhoo "Rising Tide, Winter Solstice" 2014 14 color-layered Reduction Linocut Print

It's that time of year

Hockney

Christmas Tree by James Merrill www.divasofverse.com/2022/02/chri...

Leon Herschtritt, West Berliners waving to relatives across the Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961.

Cyril Power The High Swing, 1933.

Edward Honaker, self portrait

“The Four Seasons” (1949-60), a watercolor by Charles Burchfield

David Park 'The Flower Seller', 1956

If you are in Dallas in January, I'll be at the museum:

It's that time of year, the annual reposting of the Xmas essay. therumpus.net/2010/12/chri...

Dear Santa, This is what I want for Xmas. I'm sure The Frick won't mind. They've had it for so long. Thanks P.S. I've been a very good boy. I deserve a Vermeer.

Lazy weekend

Muslim (Mughal) xmas paintings! The presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem, c. 1600-1610.

“The Four Seasons” (1949-60), a watercolor by Charles Burchfield

Can someone please explain to my cats about jet lag? Pretty please.

Gordon Ball, photographer Photograph of cadets reading Howl at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia February 18, 1991

Francis Bacon - A Jet of Water - 1979

Gordon Ball, photographer Photograph of cadets reading Howl at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia February 18, 1991

If you are in Dallas in January, I'll be at the museum:

Paul Cadmus - YMCA Locker Room 1933

Planets from al-Qazwini, 'Wonders of Creation'. Persian, ca. 1130 CE

Qajar painting of woman doing a handstand, Iran, early 20th century, oil on canvas

Hiroshi Sugimoto - The Long Never

Wayne Thiebaud - Slice of Pie - 1961

Elliot Erwitt, Showgirls, Las Vegas, Nevada 1957

Planets from al-Qazwini, 'Wonders of Creation'. Persian, ca. 1130 CE

A microscopic thread

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks www.divasofverse.com/2015/07/we-r...

W. Eugene Smith, Factory Reflected in River, 1955-6

Adama Jalloh London 2016

Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the Space division of General Dynamics, 1964

Compendium of Astrology and Geomancy, India, 18th century. Ink and opaque watercolors on cotton.

Edward Honaker, self portrait

Modigliani - Jeune Homme Assis - 1918

"Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way." Gunter Grass, Peeling the Onion

Baalbak, mon amour!

Mornin'

Kamisaka Sekka From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910

Gustave Courbet, Marine, 1866

John Vachon African American boy near Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943

An Islamic Astrological chart from the 10th Century AD

Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935

Arabic astrology. Mansions of the Moon, miniature from an Ottoman survey of world history, ca, 1580 CE

Susan Brabeau, Orchids, 2016

Gerard Sekoto The Song of the Pick, 1947 Oil on board 49 x 70 cm

David Park 'The Flower Seller', 1956