That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for May 12, 2017

Olympic gold medallist in nagging and shaming wonders why her kids never come to see her at the rest home.

Whistler’s Grandmother

Whistlers mother when she realized she wasn’t going to get paid for the hours she spent sitting for the portrait.

Norman Bate’s mother’s before picture.

“All the better to hate you with, my dear.”

Artist discovers that corpses don’t require a break.

There, now you won’t get any spaghetti sauce on your new dress.

Jewish mother: “You go out and enjoy yourselves – I’ll just stay here all alone with my memories of the shtetl”

She was nineteen when she enrolled in the meditation class. The instructor was called from the room and forgot to come back.

I am giving you my best smile.

The " You Forgot Mother’s Day " look.

3 URLs (copy each as one line):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anna_Ancher3.jpg

has info and links that point to info about this painting (best viewed by Google Chrome – can automatically translate pages if necessary).

http://www.wga.hu/bio_m/a/ancher/biograph.html

has info about this artist. So far, 3 works, solely by her, or with her husband’s collaboration, have been used here.

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2016/12/21?comments=visible

has the prior strip.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #1707 (May 11, 2017) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment; so, I won’t point to it here.

Still disappointed that she had to sub for the male life model that canceled for a Chippendale gig.

such a lifelike portrait,, NOT

Oh I know that face well!

“Ninety-eight is the new ninety-six!”