That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 21, 2017

SWM, loves borscht, the comedy stylings of Yakov Smirnoff, and walks along the Black Sea seeks female interested in the same.

What a haunting portrait!

There’s an excellent page about this artist at www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/ivan-kramskoy.htm. he mostly did portraits, but he also did some religious Painting. Check out his Christ in the wilderness here :

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/-/uwEOJTS-uQb5ww?hl=en&ms=%7B"x"%3A0.5%2C"y"%3A0.5%2C"z"%3A9.192749219291132%2C"size"%3A%7B"width"%3A0.8966037735849054%2C"height"%3A1.249344303307132%7D%7D

In particular, I love the way he renders rhe model’s hands,

Yep, in October. OJ Simpson.

Come and listen to my story about a man named Jed…

Michael Douglas – the henna version.

The triumph of The Method.: Marlon Brando as Alexei Nilych Kirillov in the Actors’ Studio production of The Possessed.

“Oh God, someone wants to have ANOTHER investigation into Benghazi? PLEASE tell me you’re kidding…”

Waiting for the newest version of Republican AHC .

I haven’t had 3 squares a day in two months, and you’re whining about microaggressions?

3 URLs (copy each as one line):

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=223332

(best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate most pages if necessary) has info and links (if it hasn’t been corrected, http://www.kmrm.com.ua/eng should be http://www.kmrm.com.ua/eng.html) that point to info about this painting.

https://en.gallerix.ru/read/ivan-nikolaevich-kramskoy/

has extensive info about this artist. So far, 5 works by him have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2015/01/22?comments=visible

has the prior strip (which, sadly, still has no active hyperlinks &?@#!#%&!).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1756 (July 20, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

I am very impressed with how quickly Mr. Melcher manages to get timely comments into his strip.

Willem Dafoe, starring in “The Last Temptation of Jeremiah Johnson.”

Methuselah – the early years.

Ted Kaczynski, on being released, realizing nobody uses the mail anymore.

“Bring me the head of Alfredo Zhabotinskt!”

Charleton Heston’s hairy brother.

Man gets carried away with 5:2 diet.

Willem Dafoe gets role as Vincent van Gogh, missing ear not shown.

Portrait of Willem Dafoe.