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(don’t you just love how computers represent Cyrillic, it’s all there) has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate linked pages, if necessary).
has what little I could find about this artist (in Russian, no death year, again, Chrome can automatically translate).
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Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1692 (April 20, 2017) entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box below the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
BE THIS GUY almost 8 years ago
“Take a break, I’ve brought you your morning share of vodka.”
MissScarlet Premium Member almost 8 years ago
OK, you know that old saying about the shoe makers’ children? Well, forget about it. I want the next pair you make or you can haul your own water.
orinoco womble almost 8 years ago
Never trust a shoemaker who works in slippers. Check out the guy’s feet!
Ubintold almost 8 years ago
If I can keep it on the ground when I put that hammer down. I’ll be Texas bound and a flying.
maltmash3r almost 8 years ago
Suicide by hammer in early Russia was neither quick nor painless
J Short almost 8 years ago
Working on Croc prototype.
katzenbooks45 almost 8 years ago
“It would probably work better if there was a handle on it, pops.”
prrdh almost 8 years ago
“Don’t be sad, Papa. I’ll sell myself on the streets and use the money to buy you some nails.”
Funny_Ha_Ha almost 8 years ago
Look kid it’s the only way to kill beard bugs.
Radish... almost 8 years ago
The shoemaker’s son goes shoeless.
mabrndt Premium Member almost 8 years ago
2 URLs (copy each as one line):
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD_1818.jpg
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(don’t you just love how computers represent Cyrillic, it’s all there) has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate linked pages, if necessary).
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https://artchive.ru/artists/2057~Vasilij_Pavlovich_Mokhnachev/biography
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has what little I could find about this artist (in Russian, no death year, again, Chrome can automatically translate).
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Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1692 (April 20, 2017) entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box below the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.
UpaCoCoCreek Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Oh if I had a hammer, I’d get hammered in the morning…
gopher gofer almost 8 years ago
nailed it…
cameron_scarlett almost 8 years ago
Nailed it!
kauri44 almost 8 years ago
The actual title of the painting would make a pretty funny caption and comments jumping off point: Russian farmer with boy who gets up early.