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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase (detail), 1650 - 1683. Oil on copper, 54.5 × 36.5 × d 7.8 cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Festoon of Fruit and Flowers (detail), 1660 - 1670. Oil on canvas, 74 × 60cm. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum were ancient royal servants who shared the title “Overseer of the Manicurists in the Palace of King Niuserre.” The two men are depicted on their joint tomb in one of the most intimate poses allowed by Egyptian artistic conventions: face to face, with their noses touching. Niankhkhnum means “joined to life” and Khnumhotep means “joined to the blessed state of the dead;” together their names mean “joined in life and death.” They are believed by some archeologists to be the first same-sex couple in recorded history. The picture shows a detail from their tomb dating to around 2350 BC.  

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Serenade #84, 86 colored pencil on paper 9" x 6.5"

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Boy with a Basket of Fruit, c.1593. Caravaggio

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Little White Lies, colored pencil on paper, 20” x 20”-2022

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Flowers in a California Forest, oil on canvas 32” x 30” - private collection

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Drawing of Oceanus by Giambologna

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Revenge IV, colored pencil, 22”x18” 2023

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Deer in Motion, 1881

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Mural painting.

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So me right now

Keith Haring painting a mural on Houston Street and Bowery in New York City, 1982.  

(Photos by Martha Cooper)

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The Study of Drapery of a Seated Figure, 1473, Leonardo Da Vinci