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JAMDrops
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Illinois artist specializing in radiant reuse. I post about art and art career opportunities. Trophy ex-wife. CFI Secular Celebrant. She/Her/Mom

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Today’s ArtDrop is an 18th century social satire oil painting by William Hogarth “Marriage a la Mode” or “La tête à tête” from 1743.

A married couple are sitting near a dwindling fireplace after hosting a gambling card party.
December 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a Dutch oil painting, 'Interior with a Family and Two Nurses before a Fire' by Cornelius de Man, c. 1670.

The image shows a busy winter well-to-do household where activity surrounds the care of infant twins.
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a surrealist oil painting by René Magritte from 1938 called ‘Time Transfixed’. It is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
December 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is an oil on canvas by Gustav Klimt titled ‘Lady by the Fireplace.’

The image shows the a lady reclining in front of an implied fireplace. She is in profile facing left where a red ochre glow emanates.
December 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is an illustration from a 14th-century Latin translation of a 10th-century Arabic health manual. The artist is unknown.
December 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is an interior scene and figure study by Félix Vallotton, ’Nude in Front of a Stove’, from 1900.

The image has a startling clarity that feels timeless. This work could have been painted yesterday.
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a visionary watercolor landscape ‘Arctic Owl and Winter Moon’ by Charles Burchfield from 1960.

The image shows a moonlit clearing in a snowy forest. The trees in the background encircle the clearing like the apse of a cathedral.
December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a dramatic romantic oil painting called “A Lion Attacking a Horse” by George Stubbs.

The image shows a terrified white horse in the bottom right of a mountainous and turbulent wilderness landscape. A lion has sprung upon his back and has hold of his throat.
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today’s ArtDrop is David Sprigg’s contemporary sculpture ‘Astra’. The image is from the artist’s website: davidspriggs.art/portfolio/as...
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's 30 degrees in Chicago. We have a full pot of bolognese, a loaf of garlic bread, it's overcast..and we're wearing sunglasses.
December 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
CyberMonday’s ArtDrop is a curated contemporary online exhibition of artwork about the human impact of malware, ‘Museum of Malware Art’, by WithSecure Computer Consultants from Helsinki Finland. Check out their exhibits at www2.withsecure.com/en/experienc...
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a post-impressionist oil painting portrait of ‘Raminou Sitting on a Cloth’ by Suzanne Valadon from 1920.
November 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is the 'Winter Egg, 1913’ created as a gift for a member for the Romanov family by the House of Fabergé.

The photo shows a sweet little basket of yellow and white flowers made out of precious metals and gemstones.
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Black Friday’s ArtDrop is a contemporary black water installation called ‘Descension’ by Anish Kapoor.
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Blessings and Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thanksgiving’s ArtDrop is a Romantic oil painting from 1820 ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’ by John Martin. This painting lives at Yale University’s Center for British Art. I want to go visit it.

This painting looks like a fantasy architectural rendering from an epic video game.
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a feminist installation created from 1974-79 by Judy Chicago called ‘The Dinner Party.’

The installation consists of a triangular banqueting table set with 39 distinct place settings & embellished runners that celebrate the work and memorialize important women in western history.
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is the ‘Black Hours’ manuscript made in Bruges in 1475-1480. This magnificent hand-illuminated book is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum: www.themorgan.org/collection/B...
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is an oil of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, as ‘Vertumnus’ the Roman god of seasons, fruit trees & gardens. This style of painting was called "scherzo” then, but the artist, Giuseppe Archimboldo, is usually classified as a Mannerist. This editor also clumps him in with Grotesque art.
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is a contemporary semiabstract neo-Rococo painting, ‘Both Sides Now' by Flora Yukhnovich from 2019.
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The artwork requires people to write messages on the provided paper with recipient and address. Dean then hand delivers the message for free and personally read it to them. How sweet is that?

Send one to your Grandma in the care home.
November 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Oy. A massive closeup of one of my minor pieces is in the Daily Herald today.
www.dailyherald.com/20251118/sub...
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is ‘The Dog’ by Goya. He painted it in oils on the wall of his house along with a series of other bleak works called his “black paintings” between 1820 and 1823.
November 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Today’s ArtDrop is Franz Stuck’s Symbolist oil painting, ‘The Guardian of Paradise” from 1889.

The image shows the athletic masculine figure of a youthful angel with spread brown wings. His body is tightly wrapped in white fabric that leaves his shoulders bare.
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM