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Jay Troyer

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Don’t follow leaders Watch the parkin’ meters - Bob Dylan 'I am a pilgrim and a stranger, Passing through this wearisome land' - Traditional "We must become ourselves, before someone else does" - Robert Hunter

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 57m

My favorite dive

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Raoul Hynckes, Belgian-Dutch (1893 - 1973), De Sleutels van de Anachoreet (The Key of the Anchorite), 1942-43, oil on canvas, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 7h

André Kertész, Hungarian (1894-1985), Satiric Dancer, Paris, 1926, photograph, gelatin silver print, printed early 1970s, image: 34.9 x 27.3 cm, sheet: 35.2 x 27.9 cm, private collection

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John McCartin, Australian (1954- ), Nasturtiums, oil on Belgian linen, 56 x 36 cm, private collection

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 8h

Kehinde Wiley, American (1977- ), Sleep, 2008, oil on canvas, 335.3 x 762 cm, Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish (1863-1923), Santa en oración (Saint in Prayer), 1888, oil on canvas, 78 x 61 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 8h

Chris Leib, American (1967-), Earthman, oil on canvas, 14 x 14 in, private collection

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Childe Hassam, American (1859-1935), Couch on The Porch, Cos Cob, 1914

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 9h

Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch (1607-1681), Witch's Tavern

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 9h

Simone Leigh, American (1967- ), Sharifa, 2022, bronze, 283 x 104 x 103 cm, 403.7 kg, 2/2, 1 artist's proof, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 9h

Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (1577-1640), Boar Hunt, 1615-17, oil on canvas, 250 x 320 cm, Marseille Museum of Fine Arts, Marseille, France

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 9h

Max Pechstein, German (1881-1955), Sailing Boats by a Reed-lined Shore, 1919, Albertina, Vienna, Austria

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 10h

Kayo Shido, Japanese (1991- ), Fluid Obscure 7, 2023, oil, pastel, acrylic, tempera on Mylar, 122 x 104 cm, private collection

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 10h

Volodymyr Burliuk, Ukranian (1886-1917), Ukrainian Peasant Woman, 1910-11, oil on canvas, 132 x 70 cm, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 22h

Beautiful Blue Hour in the "war zone" of Chicago. 🙄

Navy Pier at dusk with the giant ferris wheel

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andygill1964.bsky.social @andygill1964.bsky.social · 22h

Courious George. Photograph by Andy Andy Gill Lakeville New Brunswick Canada. 🇨🇦

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Dave Mc. @deadhedave.bsky.social · 1d

3rd graders would be denied using any speech by this loser in a prize speaking contest.....too primitive and senseless.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 1d

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian (1452-1519), Study of a Woman's Head, 1488-90, metalpoint on paper, 17.9 x 16.8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 1d

M.C. Escher, Dutch (1898-1972), Fishes and Scales, 1959 woodcut, sheet: 49 x 48 cm, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 1d

Alfred Kubin, Austrian (1877-1959), Aardvark, c. 1906, gouache on paper, 35.7 x 31.2 cm Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

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László Mednyánszky, Slovak-Hungarian (1852-1919), Memento: Scene of Horror, 1895, oil on board, 48.6 37.8 cm, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 1d

Wayne Mondok, Canadian (1961- ), Paint Brushes in Vase, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 in

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Antoni Tapies, Catalan (1923-2012), Materials and Cartons, 2006, collage, mixed media on wood, 162 x 130 cm