Laura JG
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Laura JG
@laurajg.bsky.social
Artist, art history, deconstructing. The banner is one of my artworks, created on my iPad using the Sketch Club app, with my Apple Pencil in hand. http://laurajeannegrimes.com
By Filipino artist Alfredo Esquillo (b. 1972), Thanksgiving Prayer, 2007, oil on canvas, 61 x 183 cm. (24 x 72 in.), Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26 May 2013. #art #painting #oilpainting
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My latest just-for-fun sketch: “Jes is Ready for the Christmas Party,” based on a photo she posted on the Museum app, drawn freehand (except for the background, which is a a community template) on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp #sketchclubapp
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
By Malvin Gray Johnson (1896-1934), Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, 1928-1929, oil on canvas, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. More info in ALT. #art #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #blackhistory
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
By Grant Wood (1891-1942), Seedtime and Harvest, 1937, lithograph on wove paper. As an original print, it appears in many collections. #art #arthistory #printmaking #lithography
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Here’s a sketch I’ve been working on for a few days. I think I’m going to call it done. Titled Portrait of Nerea, based on a photo she provided. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp #portrait
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Grateful Dead concert poster, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 16th-17th September 1966, designed by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley. The skeleton and roses image was taken from an illustration by Edmund Joseph Sullivan for a 1913 edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. #arthistory #illustration #art
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
By Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma Moses,” (1860-1961), Catching the Thanksgiving Turkey, 1944, oil and glitter on masonite, 19¾ x 26 in. (50.2 x 66 cm.), photo: Christie's New York, November 19, 2014. More info in ALT. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Ben Shahn (1898-1969), "From Workers to Farmers ...Thanks!," poster, 1944, photo from eBay. #arthistory #illustration #art
November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Your art history post for today: by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), The Angelus, ca. 1857-1859, oil on canvas, 55.5x66.0 cm, Musée d'Orsay. #art #arthistory #painting #oilpainting
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
By Claude Monet (1840-1926), The Turkeys, 1877, oil on canvas, 174 x 172.5 cm, Musée d'Orsay. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art #thanksgiving
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Quote: ‘“I was born a White Protestant with some prejudices that I am continuously trying to eradicate,” Rockwell said in an interview in 1962. “I am angry at unjust prejudices, in other people and in myself.” #art #DHS #justice

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We're Norman Rockwell's family. Trump's DHS has shamefully misused his work. | Opinion
As Norman Rockwell's family, we know he'd be devastated to see the Department of Homeland Security's unauthorized misuse of his work.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
By the first African-American artist to achieve international recognition, Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872), Still Life with Fruit and Nuts, 1848, oil on board, 30.48 x 40.64 cm (12 x 16 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #blackart #blackartist
November 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Quote: “Crite was a liturgist of the everyday and that meant something, especially to the Black community in Boston that was so frequently erased from the city's narrative.” #blackart #blackartist #Art #painting #arthistory
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Artist Allan Rohan Crite's vision of Black Boston
A pair of landmark exhibitions at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston Athenaeum celebrate Allan Rohan Crite’s vivid portrayals of Black life in Boston. Featuring more than 100 works, the re...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
By John Currin (born 1962), Thanksgiving, 2003, oil on canvas, 1729 x 1323 mm, Tate Gallery. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #Thanksgiving
November 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
By African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), The Thankful Poor, 1894, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 × 44 1/4 in. (90.2 × 112.4 cm), collection of Art Bridges, Inc., currently on loan to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. More in ALT. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #oilpainting #painting
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Art history theme for Thanksgiving is Gratitude. Today I offer you: Refugee Thanksgiving, 1943, by Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), oil on canvas, 41 × 31 in. (104.1 × 78.7 cm), Saint Louis Art Museum. #arthistory #Refugees #oilpainting #painting #illustration #illustrationart
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 (1760-1849), ‘Kohada Koheiji, from the series “One Hundred Ghost Tales (Hyaku monogatari)”,’ ca. 1831-1832, color woodblock print. As a print it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #woodblockprint #woodblock #printmaking #japaneseart #Art
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” By Edwaert Collier (1640-1708), Vanitas Still Life, 1662, oil on canvas, 65 3/8 x 54 in. (166.1 x 137.2 cm.), photo: Christie’s. More info in ALT. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Antonio de Pereda (1611-1678), The Knight's Dream, ca. 1650, oil on wood, 152 x 217 cm, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting
The words on the banner: "Aeterne pungit cito volat et occidit" ("Eternally it stings, quickly it flies and kills”).
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Unknown illustrator, “Dear God, Keep Them Safe!/Buy War Bonds and Stamps,” 1942, 35x47 inches, 90x119 cm, published by Kroger Grocery & Baking Company, photo: Swann Auction Galleries. More info in ALT. #illustration #illustrationhistory #propaganda #worldwar2 #halloween .
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
By James Ensor (1860-1949), Skeletons Warming Themselves, 1889, oil on canvas, 29 7/16 x 23 5/8 in. (74.8 x 60 cm), Kimbell Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #halloween
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
By Frederick James Shields (1833-1911), Hamlet and the Ghost, 1901, oil on canvas, 60x41 cm, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #art
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
By John Collier (1850-1934), All Hallowe’en, oil on canvas, 34¼ by 50½ in. (87 by 128.3 cm), photo: Sotheby’s New York. A quote from the artist: ”In painting, as in everything else, there is a fatal tendency to become accustomed to one’s faults.” #arthistory #painting #oilpainting More info in ALT.
October 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The artist may surprise you: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886, oil on canvas, 32.3 cm x 24.8 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Done when he was taking classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. #arthistory #art #painting #oilpainting
October 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM