Wine & Honey

In the North, 1896, Isaac Levitan

1) Studies of Dame’s Violet and Double Stocks. Watercolour, over black chalk, on parchment.

2) Three Mice Nibbling Fruit. Watercolour on parchment.

3) Lizards, Insects and Plants. Watercolor on vellum.

Attributed to Johanna Helena Herolt (German, born 1668).

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.