Happy Father’s day! Here’s one of our favorite Jonathan Lasker paintings to celebrate the day! Jonathan Lasker, A Portrait of the Artist’s Father, 2007, oil on linen, 80 x 60 in. (203.2 x 152.4 cm)

“When ancient tools, with their simplified, hand-wrought shapes, are placed alongside modern tools, with their streamlined industrialized designs, the imagination conjures up improbable hybrids. Ben Jackel’s gigantic redwood and graphite ‘Down to the Bone’ blade speaks eloquently …