aaronpaynefineart
@aaronpaynefineart.bsky.social
Art dealer. Connoisseur. Traveller. Yoga enthusiast.
“There’s one thing I think every person or frog needs to be creative: friends. For me, the best part of creativity is collaborating with friends & colleagues. Mine happen to be bears, pigs, rats, and penguins, but you go with what works for you.” Kermit the Frog
Ken Price, Frog Cup, 1967
#art
Ken Price, Frog Cup, 1967
#art
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
“There’s one thing I think every person or frog needs to be creative: friends. For me, the best part of creativity is collaborating with friends & colleagues. Mine happen to be bears, pigs, rats, and penguins, but you go with what works for you.” Kermit the Frog
Ken Price, Frog Cup, 1967
#art
Ken Price, Frog Cup, 1967
#art
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
― Yoko Ono
Fred Brown, Moments Later, 1977
Oil on canvas
7.125 x 24 in
#art #quote #yokoono
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
― Yoko Ono
Fred Brown, Moments Later, 1977
Oil on canvas
7.125 x 24 in
#art #quote #yokoono
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Black as the ace of spades
and as beautiful as the sin
you never had nerve enough to commit.
- Stephen King, The Green Mile
David Hammons, Spade, 1972
Screenprint on silver metallic paper
26 x 20 ins
Edition of 50
#aceofspades #davidhammons #quote #stephenking #art
David Hammons, Spade, 1972
Screenprint on silver metallic paper
26 x 20 ins
Edition of 50
#aceofspades #davidhammons #quote #stephenking #art
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Black as the ace of spades
and as beautiful as the sin
you never had nerve enough to commit.
- Stephen King, The Green Mile
David Hammons, Spade, 1972
Screenprint on silver metallic paper
26 x 20 ins
Edition of 50
#aceofspades #davidhammons #quote #stephenking #art
David Hammons, Spade, 1972
Screenprint on silver metallic paper
26 x 20 ins
Edition of 50
#aceofspades #davidhammons #quote #stephenking #art
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb
Alvin Loving, Octahedron, 1969
Acrylic on shaped canvas
29 x 24.5 inches
#proverb #octahwdeon #japaneseproverb #inspiration #abstractart #africanamericanart
- Japanese proverb
Alvin Loving, Octahedron, 1969
Acrylic on shaped canvas
29 x 24.5 inches
#proverb #octahwdeon #japaneseproverb #inspiration #abstractart #africanamericanart
November 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese proverb
Alvin Loving, Octahedron, 1969
Acrylic on shaped canvas
29 x 24.5 inches
#proverb #octahwdeon #japaneseproverb #inspiration #abstractart #africanamericanart
- Japanese proverb
Alvin Loving, Octahedron, 1969
Acrylic on shaped canvas
29 x 24.5 inches
#proverb #octahwdeon #japaneseproverb #inspiration #abstractart #africanamericanart
Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now
how comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of the air and the endless
freshets of wind?
- Mary Oliver
David Driskell, Accent of Autumn, 2016
Color screenprint/wove paper
32.5 x 23 ins
Ed. of 60 and 18 AP (1/60)
#maryoliver #art
- Mary Oliver
David Driskell, Accent of Autumn, 2016
Color screenprint/wove paper
32.5 x 23 ins
Ed. of 60 and 18 AP (1/60)
#maryoliver #art
October 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Don’t you imagine the leaves dream now
how comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of the air and the endless
freshets of wind?
- Mary Oliver
David Driskell, Accent of Autumn, 2016
Color screenprint/wove paper
32.5 x 23 ins
Ed. of 60 and 18 AP (1/60)
#maryoliver #art
- Mary Oliver
David Driskell, Accent of Autumn, 2016
Color screenprint/wove paper
32.5 x 23 ins
Ed. of 60 and 18 AP (1/60)
#maryoliver #art
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles!
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Marion Sampler, Untitled (Flag), 1965
Oil on linen
48 x 48 ins
#art #africanamericanartist #thoreau #walden #quote
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Marion Sampler, Untitled (Flag), 1965
Oil on linen
48 x 48 ins
#art #africanamericanartist #thoreau #walden #quote
October 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles!
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Marion Sampler, Untitled (Flag), 1965
Oil on linen
48 x 48 ins
#art #africanamericanartist #thoreau #walden #quote
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Marion Sampler, Untitled (Flag), 1965
Oil on linen
48 x 48 ins
#art #africanamericanartist #thoreau #walden #quote
What I loved in my old life —
I haven’t forgotten —
it lives in my spine.”
― Leonard Cohen
John Wilfred Outterbridge, Sculpted Form, 1962
Mixed media on panel
33.5 x 11.5 ins
#spine #art #quote #leonardcohen #africanamericanart
I haven’t forgotten —
it lives in my spine.”
― Leonard Cohen
John Wilfred Outterbridge, Sculpted Form, 1962
Mixed media on panel
33.5 x 11.5 ins
#spine #art #quote #leonardcohen #africanamericanart
October 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
What I loved in my old life —
I haven’t forgotten —
it lives in my spine.”
― Leonard Cohen
John Wilfred Outterbridge, Sculpted Form, 1962
Mixed media on panel
33.5 x 11.5 ins
#spine #art #quote #leonardcohen #africanamericanart
I haven’t forgotten —
it lives in my spine.”
― Leonard Cohen
John Wilfred Outterbridge, Sculpted Form, 1962
Mixed media on panel
33.5 x 11.5 ins
#spine #art #quote #leonardcohen #africanamericanart
There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing you are not being
heard noticed only
by others not heard
for the same reason.
- Audre Lorde
Zanele Muholi • Khwezi, Songhai Porto Novo, Benin • 2015
Silver gelatin print
19.7 x 13.4 inches
#audrelorde #portrait #zanelemuholi
that comes from not being heard
and knowing you are not being
heard noticed only
by others not heard
for the same reason.
- Audre Lorde
Zanele Muholi • Khwezi, Songhai Porto Novo, Benin • 2015
Silver gelatin print
19.7 x 13.4 inches
#audrelorde #portrait #zanelemuholi
October 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing you are not being
heard noticed only
by others not heard
for the same reason.
- Audre Lorde
Zanele Muholi • Khwezi, Songhai Porto Novo, Benin • 2015
Silver gelatin print
19.7 x 13.4 inches
#audrelorde #portrait #zanelemuholi
that comes from not being heard
and knowing you are not being
heard noticed only
by others not heard
for the same reason.
- Audre Lorde
Zanele Muholi • Khwezi, Songhai Porto Novo, Benin • 2015
Silver gelatin print
19.7 x 13.4 inches
#audrelorde #portrait #zanelemuholi
I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.
― Nikolai Gogol
Robert Kelly, Santuario II, 1990
Oil on canvas
72 x 52 ins
#art #opendoor #sanctuary
― Nikolai Gogol
Robert Kelly, Santuario II, 1990
Oil on canvas
72 x 52 ins
#art #opendoor #sanctuary
September 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.
― Nikolai Gogol
Robert Kelly, Santuario II, 1990
Oil on canvas
72 x 52 ins
#art #opendoor #sanctuary
― Nikolai Gogol
Robert Kelly, Santuario II, 1990
Oil on canvas
72 x 52 ins
#art #opendoor #sanctuary
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
- William Kentridge
William Kentridge, Dutch Iris II, circa 1993
Etching & aquatint on vellum
42.7 x 23.3 ins
Edition 2/30
#art #flowers #bloomscrolling #williamkentridge
- William Kentridge
William Kentridge, Dutch Iris II, circa 1993
Etching & aquatint on vellum
42.7 x 23.3 ins
Edition 2/30
#art #flowers #bloomscrolling #williamkentridge
September 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
- William Kentridge
William Kentridge, Dutch Iris II, circa 1993
Etching & aquatint on vellum
42.7 x 23.3 ins
Edition 2/30
#art #flowers #bloomscrolling #williamkentridge
- William Kentridge
William Kentridge, Dutch Iris II, circa 1993
Etching & aquatint on vellum
42.7 x 23.3 ins
Edition 2/30
#art #flowers #bloomscrolling #williamkentridge
As sure as night is dark and day is light
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine, I walk the line
Johnny Cash
Frederick Hammersley, Under On
1976-1977
Oil on linen
32 x 32 inches
#art #johnnycash #walktheline
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine, I walk the line
Johnny Cash
Frederick Hammersley, Under On
1976-1977
Oil on linen
32 x 32 inches
#art #johnnycash #walktheline
September 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
As sure as night is dark and day is light
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine, I walk the line
Johnny Cash
Frederick Hammersley, Under On
1976-1977
Oil on linen
32 x 32 inches
#art #johnnycash #walktheline
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I've known proves that it's right
Because you're mine, I walk the line
Johnny Cash
Frederick Hammersley, Under On
1976-1977
Oil on linen
32 x 32 inches
#art #johnnycash #walktheline
Everything that shows up in your mandala
is a vehicle for your awakening.
From this point of view,
awakening is right at your fingertips continually.
- Pema Chodron
Lenore Tawney, Untitled (Mandala), 1971
Mixed media on paper, collaged on paper
9.5 x 6 in
#art #inspiration #pemachodron #mandala
is a vehicle for your awakening.
From this point of view,
awakening is right at your fingertips continually.
- Pema Chodron
Lenore Tawney, Untitled (Mandala), 1971
Mixed media on paper, collaged on paper
9.5 x 6 in
#art #inspiration #pemachodron #mandala
August 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Everything that shows up in your mandala
is a vehicle for your awakening.
From this point of view,
awakening is right at your fingertips continually.
- Pema Chodron
Lenore Tawney, Untitled (Mandala), 1971
Mixed media on paper, collaged on paper
9.5 x 6 in
#art #inspiration #pemachodron #mandala
is a vehicle for your awakening.
From this point of view,
awakening is right at your fingertips continually.
- Pema Chodron
Lenore Tawney, Untitled (Mandala), 1971
Mixed media on paper, collaged on paper
9.5 x 6 in
#art #inspiration #pemachodron #mandala
May you have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your heart might desire.
- Irish blessing
Ken Price, Untitled (Green Cup), ca. 1976
Glazed & painted ceramic
3.75h x 4w x 3d ins
#art #ceramics #cup #kenprice #green
- Irish blessing
Ken Price, Untitled (Green Cup), ca. 1976
Glazed & painted ceramic
3.75h x 4w x 3d ins
#art #ceramics #cup #kenprice #green
August 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It doesn't matter
whether you're the lion
or the gazelle,
when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running.
- African Proverb
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Arlee Series # 6, 1982
Pastel & crayon on paper
30 x 22 inches
#art #inspirationalquote #nativeamericanart #proverb #animals
whether you're the lion
or the gazelle,
when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running.
- African Proverb
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Arlee Series # 6, 1982
Pastel & crayon on paper
30 x 22 inches
#art #inspirationalquote #nativeamericanart #proverb #animals
August 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It doesn't matter
whether you're the lion
or the gazelle,
when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running.
- African Proverb
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Arlee Series # 6, 1982
Pastel & crayon on paper
30 x 22 inches
#art #inspirationalquote #nativeamericanart #proverb #animals
whether you're the lion
or the gazelle,
when the sun comes up,
you'd better be running.
- African Proverb
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Arlee Series # 6, 1982
Pastel & crayon on paper
30 x 22 inches
#art #inspirationalquote #nativeamericanart #proverb #animals
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
- Walter Isaacson
Sam Gilliam • Untitled (Yellow Shapes), 2001
Silkscreen on paper
27.5 x 40.5 inches
#samgilliam #art #africanamericanart #yellow
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
- Walter Isaacson
Sam Gilliam • Untitled (Yellow Shapes), 2001
Silkscreen on paper
27.5 x 40.5 inches
#samgilliam #art #africanamericanart #yellow
August 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
- Walter Isaacson
Sam Gilliam • Untitled (Yellow Shapes), 2001
Silkscreen on paper
27.5 x 40.5 inches
#samgilliam #art #africanamericanart #yellow
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
- Walter Isaacson
Sam Gilliam • Untitled (Yellow Shapes), 2001
Silkscreen on paper
27.5 x 40.5 inches
#samgilliam #art #africanamericanart #yellow
You're much too much, and just too very very
To ever be, to ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words.
Richard Yarde, Billie Holiday, 1994
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 13.25 inches (image)
#billieholiday
Richard Yarde, Billie Holiday, 1994
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 13.25 inches (image)
#billieholiday
August 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You're much too much, and just too very very
To ever be, to ever be in Webster’s Dictionary
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous
Too marvelous for words.
Richard Yarde, Billie Holiday, 1994
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 13.25 inches (image)
#billieholiday
Richard Yarde, Billie Holiday, 1994
Watercolor on paper
15.5 x 13.25 inches (image)
#billieholiday
What’s Black and White and Red all over?
- Classic American Riddle
•
Claude Lawrence • Untitled
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24 ins
•
#art #africanamericanart
- Classic American Riddle
•
Claude Lawrence • Untitled
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24 ins
•
#art #africanamericanart
July 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
What’s Black and White and Red all over?
- Classic American Riddle
•
Claude Lawrence • Untitled
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24 ins
•
#art #africanamericanart
- Classic American Riddle
•
Claude Lawrence • Untitled
Acrylic on paper
18 x 24 ins
•
#art #africanamericanart
“It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
•
Melvin Edwards • Untitled • ca. 1974
Watercolor & ink on paper
24 x 18 ins
•
#africanamericanart
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
•
Melvin Edwards • Untitled • ca. 1974
Watercolor & ink on paper
24 x 18 ins
•
#africanamericanart
July 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
•
Melvin Edwards • Untitled • ca. 1974
Watercolor & ink on paper
24 x 18 ins
•
#africanamericanart
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
•
Melvin Edwards • Untitled • ca. 1974
Watercolor & ink on paper
24 x 18 ins
•
#africanamericanart
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against,
but it does not make me angry.
It merely astonishes me.
How can any deny themselves
the pleasure of my company?
It’s beyond me.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Romare Bearden, Storyville: A New Tune, ca. 1980
Mixed media collage
6 x 9 ins
but it does not make me angry.
It merely astonishes me.
How can any deny themselves
the pleasure of my company?
It’s beyond me.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Romare Bearden, Storyville: A New Tune, ca. 1980
Mixed media collage
6 x 9 ins
July 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against,
but it does not make me angry.
It merely astonishes me.
How can any deny themselves
the pleasure of my company?
It’s beyond me.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Romare Bearden, Storyville: A New Tune, ca. 1980
Mixed media collage
6 x 9 ins
but it does not make me angry.
It merely astonishes me.
How can any deny themselves
the pleasure of my company?
It’s beyond me.
- Zora Neale Hurston
Romare Bearden, Storyville: A New Tune, ca. 1980
Mixed media collage
6 x 9 ins
My storehouse having burnt down,
nothing obscures the view
of the bright moon.
- Bashô
Florence Miller Pierce US, 1918-2007
Untitled (Triangle with Eclipse), 1985
Resin Relief
35 x 35 x 35 x 2d inches
nothing obscures the view
of the bright moon.
- Bashô
Florence Miller Pierce US, 1918-2007
Untitled (Triangle with Eclipse), 1985
Resin Relief
35 x 35 x 35 x 2d inches
June 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
My storehouse having burnt down,
nothing obscures the view
of the bright moon.
- Bashô
Florence Miller Pierce US, 1918-2007
Untitled (Triangle with Eclipse), 1985
Resin Relief
35 x 35 x 35 x 2d inches
nothing obscures the view
of the bright moon.
- Bashô
Florence Miller Pierce US, 1918-2007
Untitled (Triangle with Eclipse), 1985
Resin Relief
35 x 35 x 35 x 2d inches
Nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the
old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the
most revolvers.
from A Revolver by Carl Sandburg
Stuart Davis
REVOLVER, 1925
Ink on paper
9.75 x 15 ins
#modernism #art #revolver
old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the
most revolvers.
from A Revolver by Carl Sandburg
Stuart Davis
REVOLVER, 1925
Ink on paper
9.75 x 15 ins
#modernism #art #revolver
June 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Nothing in human philosophy persists more strangely than the
old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the
most revolvers.
from A Revolver by Carl Sandburg
Stuart Davis
REVOLVER, 1925
Ink on paper
9.75 x 15 ins
#modernism #art #revolver
old belief that God is always on the side of those who have the
most revolvers.
from A Revolver by Carl Sandburg
Stuart Davis
REVOLVER, 1925
Ink on paper
9.75 x 15 ins
#modernism #art #revolver
I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.
from Geometry by RIta Dove
Wilfred Zogbaum
Untitled, circa 1936
Oil on canvas
15.875 x 19.75 ins
#modernart #poetry #geometry
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.
from Geometry by RIta Dove
Wilfred Zogbaum
Untitled, circa 1936
Oil on canvas
15.875 x 19.75 ins
#modernart #poetry #geometry
June 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.
from Geometry by RIta Dove
Wilfred Zogbaum
Untitled, circa 1936
Oil on canvas
15.875 x 19.75 ins
#modernart #poetry #geometry
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.
from Geometry by RIta Dove
Wilfred Zogbaum
Untitled, circa 1936
Oil on canvas
15.875 x 19.75 ins
#modernart #poetry #geometry
Here and there, I've turned a stone
But the mountain hasn't moved
I've only turned a lighter shade of blue.
- Shelby Lynne
Cady Wells US, 1904-1954
Blue Study, 1947
Watercolor on paper
19.375 x 13.25 ins
#art #blue #newmexicoartist #modernism
But the mountain hasn't moved
I've only turned a lighter shade of blue.
- Shelby Lynne
Cady Wells US, 1904-1954
Blue Study, 1947
Watercolor on paper
19.375 x 13.25 ins
#art #blue #newmexicoartist #modernism
June 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here and there, I've turned a stone
But the mountain hasn't moved
I've only turned a lighter shade of blue.
- Shelby Lynne
Cady Wells US, 1904-1954
Blue Study, 1947
Watercolor on paper
19.375 x 13.25 ins
#art #blue #newmexicoartist #modernism
But the mountain hasn't moved
I've only turned a lighter shade of blue.
- Shelby Lynne
Cady Wells US, 1904-1954
Blue Study, 1947
Watercolor on paper
19.375 x 13.25 ins
#art #blue #newmexicoartist #modernism