That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 13, 2020

The defense attorney decided to argue against the reliability of facial recognition technology.

I have nothing to say – This painting has no sex or violence

“Covering the nose and mouth is essential, but the eye cover mandate is taking it a bit too far.”

The new way to face the law in a pandemic; remove all faces.

In the classic Far Side where the bandit on horseback had his bandana tied around his eyes, “This can’t be right – I can hear the train, but I can’t see a blamed thing!”

Further proof that Tommy Benton skipped class the day they taught facial features in Art 101.

Unfortunately, they all left their faces in a jar by the door.

What happens when you wear your mask too long.

this must be the japanese porn version – the original isn’t blurred out…

https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/1317/trial-by-jury

“TOMMY!!! This is a picture of what our ‘American Courtroom Action Figure Diorama’ looked like before you played with it and now you have returned it with all but two of the dolls NAKED!!! What is the meaning of this?” – Day School Teacher …….. “Oh, the two with the clothes still on are the lawyers.” – Tommy

I had to put my glasses on to get it.

What happens when the video technician forgets to turn off the suspect pixellation button.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, how can we face the facts if we have no faces?”

OK, who’s been messing wth the etch-a-sketch.

Your honor, this jury was not drawn from a valid pool of peers — in fact,….

Artist taking the “Justice Is Blind” trope a little too far.

Hitler’s painting that led Austrian art critics to suggest that he pursue a different career.

The result of a paint-by-number panel done by someone who felt the details were just too tiny to try and paint in.

Faceless Crowd??

Like Oliver Sachs, Thomas Hart Benton suffered from prosopagnosia.

" Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, why are we wasting our time here ? The defendant has pleaded guilty – and we know he will be pardoned by the President ANYWAY. I say we break for lunch !"

Depiction of the legal system fading into insignificance.

The defendant’s a murderous brute/ but the “President” thinks he’s “cute”/ hence the Jury’s decision/ is met with derision/ and a pardon renders it moot !

OK, I understand everything that is going on except why is that guy zipping up his pants during closing argument?

Get Fuzzy, alt version.

The people who were in the courtroom got together 17 years later to re-create the scene. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/31/Courtroom-reunion-honors-Thomas-Hart-Benton-painting/6315378622800/

Happens every time the Grateful Dead come to town.

Legal artist sketches from the Witless Protection Program.

Casting storyboard for “Bull” – actors’ faces to be inserted later.

Trial by Jury: 

https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/1317/trial-by-jury 

has info about the finished painting, a sketch of which was used for the strip image. I am pointing to the museum’s webpage (but, you already know that from @gopher gofer’s comment) . Copyright issues prevented me from creating a Wikimedia Commons page for it.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/benton_thomas_hart.html 

http://arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/thomas-hart-benton-at-auction-sothebys.html 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-hart-benton 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32688692/thomas-hart-benton 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/thomas-hart-benton/ 

http://www.all-art.org/DICTIONARY_of_Art/b/Benton1.htm 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Thomas_Hart_Benton/8195/Thomas_Hart_Benton.aspx 

https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%253A115479 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~am482_04/am_scene/bentonbio.html 

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/thomas-hart-benton-2333/ 

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/thomas-hart-benton.htm 

https://prabook.com/web/thomas.benton/3743239 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter) 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays). First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2490 (July 12, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Anyone lose a purple leg?

Artist has astigmatism,

They all have that blank look on their face….

guy standing far right, says “piss on you”, wait a minute till I get it out.

Boy, they’re really overdoing the mask thing, aren’t they?

Wasn’t he the one who did that Tom Brady sketch?