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Jay Troyer
@gr8flbluejay.bsky.social
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
Edward Hopper, American (1882-1967), Early Sunday Morning, 1930, oil on canvas, 89.4 x 153 cm, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, USA
February 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Enzo Benedetto, Italian (1905-1993), Evolution of a Propeller Rotation, 1970-79

I've only one source for this work, but it does look like a Benedetto, so–
February 13, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Édouard Vuillard, French (1868-1940), Interior with Work Table / The Suitor, 1893, oil on cardboard, 31.7 x 36.4 cm, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Armand Rassenfosse, Belgian (1862-1934), La Femme au Mirroir, 1921, oil on board, 64.3 x 53.5 cm, private collection
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Have a very lucky Friday the 13th!

Eva Fialka, Hungarian (1960), Trio, 2022, acrylic on canvas
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish (1929-2005), Untitled, BL75, 1975, 73 x 87 cm, oil on hardboard, Historical Museum in Sanok, Poland, or National Museum in Wrocław, Poland
February 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian (1452-1519), The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 1510-13, black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing lines (not by Leonardo), 20.3 x 15.6 cm, The Met, New York City, New York, USA
February 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Atsushi Kaga, Japanese (1978- ), After One Year, 2022, acrylic and imitation gold leaf on canvas, 162 x 130 cm, private collection
February 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Z. Z. Wei, Chinese-American (1957- ), Tracks, 2012, oil on canvas, 72 x 72 in
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Jackson Pollock, American (1912-1956), Pasiphaë, 1943, oil on canvas, 142.6 x 243.8 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats, Catalan (1861-1931), Figura de mujer, 1894, oil on canvas, 100.0 x 81.0 cm, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
February 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Horace Pippin, American (1888-1946), Cabin in the Cotton, 1931-37, oil on cotton, mounted on Masonite, 51 x 85 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian-American (1895-1946), Photogram, 1923, photogram on printing-out paper, 23.8 x 17.8 cm, private collection
February 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Lovis Corinth, German (1858-1925), Still Life with Chrysanthemums and Amaryllis, 1922, oil on canvas, 121 x 96 cm, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
February 13, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by Jay Troyer
📸 : Sten Didrik Bellander (1921–2001) - Kvartsglas (Quartz Glass), 1960

gelatin silver print

A seminal work of Swedish modern photography. The print exemplifies his mastery of light and form, transforming a simple glass pitcher into a study of transparency, refraction, and austere beauty.

More 👇
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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Oskar Kokoschka, Self-portrait of a 'Degenerate Artist, 1937. Oil on canvas, 110.00 x 85.00 cm; Framed: 135.30 x 101.40 x 10.00 cm. On loan from a private collection (GML 285), Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK © Fondation Oskar Kokoschka, DACS London
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Little Hungry Hippo!🤗
🦛 too cute!🥰🥰
A little blue hippo made by an Egyptian artisan around 4,000 years ago! 🦛 ❤️

Decorated with river plants and lotus flowers, blue faience hippos are associated with the life-giving Nile and rebirth. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. 📷 by me

#Archaeology
February 13, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Stille ist eine Quelle großer Kraft.

— Laotse
February 13, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Reposted by Jay Troyer
That exposed the heart of those with wealth and power: the suffering of their victims fades under the warm glow of more money and power.
February 13, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French (1866-1944), Gegengewichte, 1926, oil on canvas, 49.5 x 49.5 cm, Städtisches Museum, Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany
February 12, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, English (1889-1946), Twentieth Century, 1932-35, oil on canvas, 183.7 x 122.5 cm, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Tsuchiya Koitsu, Japanese (1870-1949), Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, woodblock print, 1939, vertical oban: 42.3 x 28.6 cm, private collection
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Edward Robert Hughes, British (1851-1914), Oh, What's That in the Hollow, 1893, watercolor on paper, 63.2 x 93.3 cm, Royal Watercolour Society, London, England
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Jacob Lawrence, American (1917-2000), Fruits and Vegetables, 1959, tempera on hardboard, 50.8 x 61 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
February 12, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Francis Bacon, British (1909-1992), Study from the Human Body (after, Study from Human Body 1987), 1992, aquatint on Fabriano paper, sheet: 163 x 121 cm, image: 134.4 x 99.5 cm, edition of 90
February 12, 2026 at 7:03 PM