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Verity Vagary
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Artist, Writer, Vinyl ⒹⒿ 🕯📚 𝓈𝒽ℯ/𝒽ℯ𝓇

Spinning 𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒛, soul, 𝚙𝚜𝚢𝚌𝚑, disco, 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐤, funk, 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬, & 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖊
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Petrus van Schendel
The Book Fair
1852
People from all over the place gather in a town during the night to buy books at a book market. The scene is lit by candlelight, with moonlight in the sky.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Tune into The Art Museum today at 9 ish AM CST! I'll be playing Thanksgiving themed jazz, folk, & more - Tunes about food, family, friends, and going home 🦃 🥧

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Painting: George Lance - Still life with fruit in a landscape a hunting party beyond - 1859

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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A doodle I made after accidentally hitting a squirrel with my car
A sad lady driving a car and behind her is an expired squirrel
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A doodle I made after watching the documentary "DIG!" about the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. It's of Matt Hollywood realizing it will be impossible for him to stay in the band.
Sharpie on a post it doodle of a groovy fellow wearing glasses with a sad, stunned look on his face
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Carl Spitzweg - "Bad Luck When Hunting"
An oil painting depicting a man holding a rifle, fearfully sliding down an embankment towards the water's edge. He has been saved by the strap of his bag which has caught on a broken branch, preventing him from plunging into the water below.
November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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It is a beautiful frosty morning here in Wisconsin. The remainder of yesterday's birdseed has frosted over, and the birdbath is frozen solid.
A close up on a butterfly on a metal butterfly bath. The butterfly's wings are frosted and it is surrounded by birdseed, also frosted A metal butterfly bath sprinkled with birdseed and frosted to perfection
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Completed a dark purple grisaille underpainting of the weird little guys over the weekend! It seems like the more I observe them, the more they are filled with life, with personality, with energy!

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November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Going through the last of the 45's in the jazz collection I bought last spring. It is hard to get rid of some of these, but I have enough 1950's jazz records to last a lifetime. Will be bringing the remainder to my buddy at the antique store.
a pile of 45's including Les Brown and Harry James
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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In the Luxembourg Gardens
John Singer Sargent
1879
A well-to-do couple meanders across a stone courtyard. Behind them, others idyll as the sun is close to setting in a hazy summer sky. The sun reflects silver and gold on the surface of a pool in the courtyard
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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El Jaleo. Guitarists & Flamenco Dancer
Engraving after the painting by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
A black and white engraving of a "gypsy" woman dancing in a dimly lit room. She strikes a dramatic pose, with one hand raised in the air. Behind her is a row of guitarists and to the side of her are other dancers. Everyone's shadows are dancing on the walls.
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Grelots roses, ciels en lambeaux (Pink Bells, Tattered Skies)
Magritte, René Magritte, 1930

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One of the main elements that appear in the works of René Magritte is the bell, a recurring icon in his output that mysteriously evokes the painter’s infancy and which would later become part of the range of symbolic elements in his work. Grelots roses, ciels en lambeaux (Pink Bells, Tattered Skies, 1930), is one of the paintings in which Magritte used this symbol, alongside another of his favourite motifs, clouds. As in other Magritte paintings where these “silent bells” appear, these ones are physically floating in the air, occupying one half of the painting, free of their weight, their function and their usual scale, which gives them an unreal appearance that emphasises their oneiric power. This is also helped by an almost photographically accurate technique, which seems to freeze the image in time and space. The other half of the scene (the painting is divided into two equal areas) is occupied by a sky full of fluffy cloud formations, in stark contrast to the stately definition of the area taken by the round bells. The chromatic difference – bright blue for the cloudy background and electric salmon pink for the bells’ space – contributes to the general feeling of perplexity and uneasiness emanating from the picture, such as happens with the best executed Surrealist visions. Paloma Esteban Leal
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Very happy with my new collection of easy listening / ambient / new age music cassettes from the late 70's & early to mid-80s. Definitely worth the drive out of town.
An assortment of new age, ambient, instrumental, and easy listening cassette tapes
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The Pancake Baker with a Boy
Gabriel Metsu
A small boy takes his hat off to speak with the pancake maker, perhaps employing her to make him a pancake. She sits in front of a small fire holding an iron pan. She is dressed warmly and surrounded by what she needs to make pancakes in her outdoor kitchen area in front of her tent. A cat sits on the fence nearby staring fiercely at a row of fish that are drying over the fire
November 4, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Leaves falling in a small forest of maple trees
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Listen back to The Sunday Brunch Show with Painting Sunsets, November 3rd 2024, Jazz Funk & Smooth Country

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Art: Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Dancing Figures

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Art: Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Dancing Figures Painting depicting an old mill as seen from a distance. The mill is attached to a tower and a round building with columns. The mill wheel is turning, dropping large rushes of water into the river.
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Weird-O-Matic Wax 2025

Playing tracks by The Ventures, Bobby Garrett, Berto Pisano, Elsio Mancuso, The Terry Sisters, Kenny & The Fiends and more.

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October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Frosty October morning in Wisconsin

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Brilliant sunrise over a field covered in mist. Bright copper tree line reaching halfway across the horizon. In the foreground is a patch of wine red wild plants Close up photo of frosted grass and leafy ground cover. A golden brown leaf rests in the grass, it's ruffled dewy edges crystallized in ice overnight.
October 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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What?? This is so cute!! Are you still taking orders?
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Who needs aliens when there are things like this hanging out ON EARTH!?
A volcano snail whose shell is made from iron!!
October 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Here is my completed value study for this still life. One thing I did not predict is the green wall being so much darker than the orange floor!
a pencil sketch depicting a weird little guy in a furry suit with a split seed pod head. Next to him is a basket containing two fluff-ball creatures with shiny black eyes
October 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Listen back to The Art Museum with Painting Sunsets, October 12th, 2025, Wind From The Old Castle feat. music by Paul Horn, The Pentangle, The Golden Palominos, Tomita, Arlo Guthrie, and many more!

Art: John Atkinson Grimshaw - Iris detail of the fairy

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Art: John Atkinson Grimshaw - Iris detail of the fairy
October 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Up early doing a study for my next painting. I love these weird little guys! If anyone has any information about what they are, or where they came from, I'd love to know!
Still life featuring two white fluffballs in a basket and a seed head figure with prickly fur suit leaning against the basket
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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This reminds me of this strip from Calvin & Hobbes 😊
October 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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In this excerpt from The Marble Faun, Vol. 1, trusted narrator and masterful writer Nathaniel Hawthorne exquisitely describes the indescribable. #artsky #booksky
…"but, as with dreamers when they shout, her voice would perish inaudibly in the remoteness that seemed such a little way. This perception of an infinite, shivering solitude, amid which we cannot come close enough to human beings to be warmed by them, and where they turn to cold, chilly shapes of mist, is one of the most..." "..forlorn results of any accident, misfortune, crime, or peculiarity of character, that puts an individual ajar with the world. Very often, as in Miriam's case, there is an insatiable instinct that demands friendship, love, and intimate communion, but is forced to pine in empty forms; a hunger of the heart, which finds only shadows to feed upon."
October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Henry Herbert La Thangue
An Autumn Morning
A painting depicting a woman in a gray dress forcefully pushing her knee into the center of a small branch, attempting to snap it. She is surrounded by all the beautiful colors of changing fall leaves
October 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM