The Complete History Of Art References In The Simpsons

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Now in it’s twenty-third season, The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted television series in American prime-time. In four hundred plus episodes, the obvious laughs are often low-brow, but what has made the show such a success season after season are the satirical takes on popular culture. While the film, television and music references are easy to recognize, The Simpsons is often rather erudite with frequent nods to the art world.

Spanning from the renaissance masters to contemporary minds, here’s the complete history of art references in every Simpsons episode ever.

- Megan Ann Wilson (@shegotgame)

1

"Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lillies" by Claude Monet

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 1, Episode 11 - "The Crepes of Wrath"

Also Appears: N/A

Bart drives through paintings of famous French paintings on his way through France to his billet's house in the country.

2

"The Dream" by Henri Rousseau

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 1, Episode 11 - "The Crepes of Wrath"

Also Appears: N/A

Bart drives through paintings of famous French paintings on his way through France to his billet's house in the country.

3

"Wheat Field with Crows" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 1, Episode 11 - "The Crepes of Wrath"

Also Appears: N/A

Bart drives through paintings of famous French paintings on his way through France to his billet's house in the country.

4

"The Luncheon on the Grass" by Edouard Manet

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 1, Episode 11 - "The Crepes of Wrath"

Also Appears: N/A

Bart drives through paintings of famous French paintings on his way through France to his billet's house in the country.

5

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 1 - Bart Gets an “F”
Also Appears: Season 9, Episode 20 - The Trouble with Trillions - Featured as a parody tableau that represents Burns' ancestors in the hall of his home. Season 14, Episode 10 - Pray Anything - When the plumber touches the kitchen wall, the drywall cracks and it shows the outline of the painting.

Bart scribbles over a picture of the painting in his textbook as he studies for his history exam on a snow day.

6

Giorgio de Chirico Painting

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 2 - "Simpson and Delilah"

Also Appears: Season 4, Episode 6 - "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie" - In the background of a Bumble Bee Man sketch. Season 4, Episode 9 - "Mr. Plow" - In the background of a Bumble Bee Man sketch.

Painting in Homer's new executive office looks to be one in the de Chirico palette and style.

7

"David" by Michaelangelo

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 9 - "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge"

Also Appears: Season 9, Episode 3 - "Lisa's Sax" - Homer plays an animated version of the statue of David in foosball in a day dream. Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - Version of David is recreated in junk at the outsider art show.

David is sent on a touring exhibit and Springfield is one of the stops. David appears on Smartline with pants covering his bottom half for modesty. Homer and Marge go to the museum to see it.

8

"Whitewashing the Fence" by Norman Rockwell

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 9 - "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge"

Also Appears: N/A

Nelson and friends white washing the fence as there are no more good cartoons on to watch to keep them inside.

9

"The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Jérôme Bosch

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 10 - "Bart Gets Hit By a Car"

Also Appears: N/A

Bart sees one of the panels in his dream after he is hit by Burns' car.

10

"Girl At The Mirror" by Norman Rockwell

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 12 - "The Way We Was"

Also Appears: N/A

Marge sits and stares in front of the mirror as she gets ready for senior prom.

11

"Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 17 - "Old Money"

Also Appears: Season 8, Episode 18 - "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" - Rex Banner and his fellow cops sit at the diner on his birthday.

Grampa Simpson sits at a cafe contemplating what he should his inherited money.

12

"Ascending and Descending" by M.C. Escher

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 18 - "Brush with Greatness"

Also Appears: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV" - Parody painting in the intro of the episode.

The crowds waiting for the H2Whoa ride at the Mount Splashmore waterpark are endless like the Escher painting.

13

"Campbell's Soup Cans" by Andy Warhol

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 18 - "Brush with Greatness"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - Marge and Homer go to the gallery to get inspired and an interpretation of Andy Warhol's Soup Cans hangs in the gallery. Homer drools "mmm, split pea soup" when he sees it. Homer falls asleep in the gallery and is transported into different paintings. In the dream, Andy Warhol throws cans of split pea soup at Homer "soups on fatty!". Homer wakes up yelling "Andy, no!" and his hand has punched through a Warhol painting of the Soup Cans.

In the background of the art show exhibit where Marge exhibits her “Bald Adonis” painting of Homer.

14

"A Friend in Need" by C.M. Coolidge

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 18 - "Brush with Greatness"

Also Appears: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV" - The painting is featured in the introduction to the third story. Also, a copy of the painting hangs above the Simpsons' couch in the third story. Season 6, Episode 20 - "Two Dozen Greyhounds" - Santa's Little Helper and his girlfriend, She's the Fastest, date all over Springfield. They stick their heads into cutouts made in a version of the A Friend in Need painting and had their photo taken. Season 6, Episode 26 - "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 1" - The painting hangs in The Simpsons' vet office. Season 11, Episode 12 - "The Mansion Family" - Burns in painting playing poker with dogs. Season 11, Episode 18 - "Day of Wine and D'oh-ses" - Lisa and Bart stage and take a photo for the new phonebook using real dogs playing poker. Season 16, Episode 19 - "Thank God It's Doomsday" - Parody of the painting at a Christian store.

A painting at the Springfield Art Fair depicts dogs playing ping pong, a homage to the dogs playing poker in the original painting.

15

Pablo Picasso Reference

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 18 - "Brush with Greatness"

Also Appears: Season 13, Episode 4 - "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" - Seen in Burns' home as Homer carries Burns, who is carrying his girlfriend Gloria, up the stairs.

Multiple paintings of Burns are tossed aside, including one of Burns done in a cubist style, perhaps a nod to Picasso's portraits.

16

"Burns" by Marge Simpson

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 18 - "Brush with Greatness"

Also Appears: Season 11, Episode 12 - "The Mansion Family" - Painting done by Marge of Burns hangs in the hallway of his home.

Marge paints Burns naked in a realistic style for the unveiling of a new wing at the Springfield Museum.

17

"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 2, Episode 22 - "Blood Feud"

Also Appears: Season 6, Episode 18 - "A Star is Burns" - Opening credits for Burns' film shows Burns as Adam in a parody of the painting. Season 9, Episode 20 - "The Trouble with Trillions" - Paintings that represent Burns' ancestors in the hall of his home. Season 14, Episode 10 - "Pray Anything" - Homer sits in his office looking at a picture of God that changes in different ways he holds it from happy God to vengeful God. Season 19, Episode 2 - "The Homer of Seville" - At the end of the episode Homer paints his version of the creation of Adam on the ceiling of their living room.

The Springfield post office's main mural is a parody of the painting; with a letter carrier and a customer in the roles of Adam and God.

18

"Vitruvius Man" by Leonardo Da Vinci

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 3, Episode 9 - "Saturdays of Thunder"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - Homer falls asleep in the gallery and is transported into different different tableaux. The Vitruvian Man rolls into Homer's dream and beats him up with punches and kicks. Later, Homer lies over a carpet distraught. The combination of his outstretched limbs and the circles on the carpet combine to make an homage to the Vitruvian Man. This happens twice in the episode. Season 20, Episode 13 - "Gone Maggie Gone" - The opening graphics package for a Channel 6 news segment on the eclipse shows Homer as the Vitruvian Man.

The logo at the Father Hood Institute is a version of the Vitruvius man, except that he holds a son's hand, briefcase, a kite and a baseball mitt, showing elements of parenthood.

19

"Freedom from Want" by Norman Rockwell

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 3, Episode 16 - "Bart the Lover"

Also Appears: Season 3, Episode 21 - "Black Widower" - Sideshow Bob carves a Thanksgiving turkey for his fellow inmates at Springfield Penitentiary.

The Flanders dinner scene, Maude sets the roast down in front of Ned.

20

"Christina's World" by Andrew Wyeth

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 4, Episode 9 - "Mr. Plow"

Also Appears: Season 18, Episode 13 - "Springfield Up" - Parody of the painting with Burns replacing the female character in the painting.

Painting in the background of the advertising agency's commercial for Mr. Plow.

21

Statue of Perseus

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 4, Episode 9 - "Mr. Plow"

Also Appears: N/A

A statue of Perseus is seen in the background of the of the advertising agency's commercial for Mr. Plow.

22

"Carol" by Patrick Nagel

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 4, Episode 22 - "Krusty Gets Kancelled"

Also Appears: N/A

Painting at Hugh Hefner's Shelbyville house.

23

"La Grande Odalisque" by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 4, Episode 22 - "Krusty Gets Kancelled"

Also Appears: N/A

Painting at Hugh Hefner's Shelbyville house.

24

"Mystery and Melancholy of a Street" by Giorgio de Chirico

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: N/A

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

25

"The Sleep" by Salvador Dali

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: N/A

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

26

"Self-Portrait" by Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: Season 14, Episode 9 - "Strong Arms of the Ma" - Lisa buys it from Rainer Woftcastle's estate sale.

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

27

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: Season 9, Episode 3 - "Lisa's Sax" - Homer plays an animated version of the character from The Scream painting in foosball. Season 17, Episode 6 - "See Homer Run" - Dolph, one of the Springfield Elementary School bullies, steals the painting and shows it off to the other bullies and Bart.

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

28

"The Death of Marat" by Jacques Louis David

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: N/A

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

29

"The Three Musicians" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - Homer falls asleep in the gallery and is transported into different different tableaux. The characters in Three Musicians are animated and their instruments are turned into guns and they shoot Homer.

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

30

"The Son of Man" by René Magritte

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: Season 9, Episode 3 - "Lisa's Sax" - A child at the pre-school that the Simpsons visit is painting a version of The Son of Man. Season 11, Episode 15 - "Missionary: Impossible" - Cover of the "Sounds of the Museum" CD on PBS.

Parody painting in the introduction of the episode.

31

"Mona Lisa" by Leonard de Vinci

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 5 - "Treehouse of Horror IV"

Also Appears: Season 5, Episode 11 - "Homer the Vigilante" - Painting hanging in the Springfield Museum. Season 6, Episode 12 - "Homer the Great" - Homer drives through the Stone Cutter shortcut tunnel and there's the Mona Lisa hanging on the wall. Season 13, Episode 4 - "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" - A crude version of the Mona Lisa hangs on the wall in Snake's house. Season 14, Episode 5 - "Helter Shelter" - Couch gag - Simpsons sit in front of the Mona Lisa. Season 15, Episode 1 - "Treehouse of Horror XIV" - Bart steals paintings while time is stopped and the Mona Lisa is seen in his room. Season 16, Episode 11 - "On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" - Multiple copies of the Mona Lisa are on display at SprawlMart.

Police officers throw the painting into the fire at the museum.

32

"Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 9 - "The Last Temptation of Homer"

Also Appears: N/A

Homer sees Mindy, his work crush, as Venus in a shell, with Lenny and Carl as the cherubs.

33

Sculpture by Henry Moore

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 11 - "Homer the Vigilante"

Also Appears: N/A

Grampa Simpson and Jasper steal a modern sculpture out of the Springfield Musuem

34

"Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 11 - "Homer the Vigilante"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - Homer falls asleep in the gallery and is transported into different different tableaus, including Persistence of Memory. A drop of water from one of Dali's clocks falls on his head. Season 18, Episode 14 - "Yokel Chords" - Comic Book Guy shows Cletus' kids art books at the coffee shop with the famous painting on the cover.

The painting hangs in the Springfield Museum beside the cubic zirconia.

35

"Sunflowers" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 11 - "Homer the Vigilante"

Also Appears: N/A

Painting hanging in the Springfield Museum.

36

"The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 16 - "Homer Loves Flanders"

Also Appears: Season 6, Episode 7 - "Bart's Girlfriend" - A print of the painting hangs in the Lovejoy's dinning room, seen when Bart has dinner at the Lovejoy's. Season 9, Episode 13 - "The Joy of Sect" - A print of the painting hangs in Flanders' basement. Season 11, Episode 22 - "Behind the Laughter" - A print of the paintings hangs behind Flander's living room couch. Season 13, Episode 6 - "She of Little Faith" - At the renovated church, Bart takes his picture in a novelty photo background with the scene of The Last Supper. Bart's face replaces Jesus in the photo. Season 16, Episode 19 - "Thank God It's Doomsday" - Painting is seen on Homer's garage wall which he uses for reference in his Doomsday prediction. Also, in the final scene at Moe's, all the bar flies are posed like the Last Supper. Season 20, Episode 13 - "Gone Maggie Gone" - A mechanism using a reproduction of the painting that Lisa has to solve.

A print of the painting hangs above The Flanders' couch.

37

"American Gothic" by Grant Wood

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 5, Episode 17 - "Bart Gets an Elephant"

Also Appears: Season 11, Episode 8 - "Take my Wife, Sleaze" - Apu and Manjula standing with broom in front of the Kwik-E-Mart.

Bart cleans The Simpsons' print of the painting until there's nothing left but a quote from Grant Wood.

38

Venus de Milo

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 6, Episode 9 - "Homer Badman"

Also Appears: Season 17, Episode 13 - "The Seemingly Never Ending Story" - As Lisa and Burns run through his home while being chased by a big horn sheep, they pass works of art.

Homer steals the gummy Venus de Milo from the candy convention. He later sees it stuck to the pants of the babysitter and pulls the gummy off and eats it. This incident is seen as sexual harassment by the babysitter.

39

"Relativity" by M.C. Escher

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 6, Episode 12 - "Homer the Great"

Also Appears: Season 6, Episode 21 - "The PTA Disbands" - Episode couch gag.

Episode couch gag.

40

Empire State Building

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 6, Episode 18 - "A Star is Burns"

Also Appears: Season 20, Episode 20 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure" - Maggie makes the Empire State Building out of blocks. Later, Adult Maggie as an adult architect goes to work in a building that looks like the Empire State Building but gold.

Scenic establishing shot of Manhattan, the Empire State Building is shown. Also, the Empire State building is seen as Jay Sherman walks down the street in Manhattan while reading Marge's letter.

41

"Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of Painter's Mother" by James Whistler

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 11, Episode 12 - The Mansion Family
Also Appears: Season 9, Episode 20 - The Trouble with Trillions - The painting represents Burns' mother in the hall of his home. Season 11, Episode 12 - The Mansion Family - The painting represents Burns' mother in the hall of his home. Season 17, Episode 13 - Lisa and Burns pass artistic relics as they're being chased by a big horn sheep. The painting represents Burns' mother in the hall of his home.

The painting represents Burns' mother and is seen in his dressing room.

42

"Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red" by Piet Mondrian

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 6, Episode 26 - "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 1"

Also Appears: Season 9, Episode 17 - "Lisa The Simpson" - Seen in the background of the gallery that Lisa is visiting. Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - A Mondrian composition is on the cover of Art in America, which Homer is reading in bed. A version of a Mondrian composition hangs in the background of the Springsonian Museum, which Homer and Marge visit together. Season 14, Episode 5 - "Helter Shelter" - A Mondrian composition hangs in Lenny's apartment. Season 16, Episode 19 - "Thank God It's Doomsday" - A Mondrian composition hangs above a bed in heaven. Season 20, Episode 20 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure" - A Mondrian composition hangs in adult Maggie's office.

A version of a Mondrian composition hangs in the vet's office.

43

"After the Prom" by Norman Rockwell

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 14 - "Scenes From The Class Struggle in Springfield"

Also Appears: N/A

The painting shows a young formally-clad couple at a cheap diner, like The Simpsons at Krusty Burger after leaving the country club.

44

"Vase with Red Poppies" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 14 - "Scenes From The Class Struggle in Springfield"

Also Appears:

The painting hangs in the tea room at the country club.

45

"George Washington" by Gilbert Stuart

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 16 - "Lisa the Iconoclast"

Also Appears: N/A

The painting hangs in Lisa's classroom at Springfield Elementary and at the Jebediah Springfield museum. Later, Lisa discovers that Springfield was once Hans Sprungfeld, a murderous pirate. She imagines Stuart painting Washington and Sprungfeld running off with part of the painting stuck to his boot. Sprungfeld later uses the portion of the painting to write his confession, which he stores in his fife. Lisa finds it while rummaging at the museum.

46

"Portrait of a Young Man" by Raphael

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 22 - "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Fying Hellfish'"

Also Appears: N/A

The painting is part of the stolen Nazi art that the Hellfish recovered. It was found in a castle, placed in a crate then uncovered by Abe Simpson and Bart at the bottom of the ocean and later stolen by Burns. It was returned to the rightful German heir by the US government as soon as Grampa and Bart got them back from Burns.

47

"Madonna and Child" by Sandro Botticelli

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 22 - "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "'The Curse of the Fying Hellfish'"

Also Appears: Season 20, Episode 13 - "Gone Maggie Gone" - Painting in the church, turns into painting of the devil once Bart sits on the throne.

The painting is part of the stolen Nazi art that the Hellfish recovered. It was found in a castle, placed in a crate then uncovered by Abe Simpson and Bart at the bottom of the ocean and later stolen by Burns. It was returned to the rightful German heir by the US government as soon as Grampa and Bart got them back from Burns.

48

Claude Monet

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 22 - "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Fying Hellfish'

Also Appears: N/A

As Burns steals the key from Grampa, he makes reference to Claude Monet, "Well, I'm off to get paintings; as they say, time is "Monets."

49

Sandro Botticelli

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 7, Episode 22 - "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Fying Hellfish'"

Also Appears: N/A

As Burns steals the recovered paintings back from Bart and Grampa he makes reference to the painter Sandro Botticelli - "I'd like you to stop pinching my Botticelli."

50

"Dempsey and Firpo" by George Bellows

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 8, Episode 3 - "The Homer They Fall"

Also Appears: N/A

An image of Homer defeating a hobo in the boxing montage looks like the painting of the match from September 14, 1923 in NYC.

51

Taj Mahal

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 9, Episode 3 - "Lisa's Sax"

Also Appears: Lisa puts together a puzzle of the Taj Mahal at the psychiatrist office. Also appears: Season 20, Episode 20 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure" - Maggie makes buildings out of blocks, one of them is the Taj Mahal.

Lisa puts together a puzzle of the Taj Mahal at the psychiatrist office.

52

Reference to Jackson Pollock

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 9, Episode 13 - "The Joy of Sect"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - A painting using the abstract expressionist splatter technique hangs in the Springsonian Museum that Homer and Marge visit.

Chalkboard gag - "SHOOTING PAINTBALLS IS NOT AN ART FORM".

53

Painting by Joan Miro

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 9, Episode 17 - "Lisa The Simpson"

Also Appears: Season 18, Episode 14 - "Yokel Chords" - Comic Boy shows Cletus' kids art books at the coffee shop including a book on Miro with “Painting” on the cover.

Lisa goes to the gallery hoping for inspiration and a “meal for a brain”. She comments to a gallery worker named Kenny how much she loves the Joan Miro painting, but he says that he painted that one and the real one is in his basement.

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The Beatles' Cover Art for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by Sir Peter Blake and Jann Howarth.

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 8, Episode 5 - "Bart After Dark"

Also Appears: Season 8, Episode 14 - "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" - episode couch gag. Season 12, Episode 15 - "New Kids on the Bleech" - LT. Smash shows Lisa photos of various pop culture icons working for the navy including The Beatles, who are shown attacking a dummy in their full Sgt. Pepper's regalia.

The Simpsons' parody the cover art of Sgt. Pepper's by using various characters and objects from the show.

54

"Discus Thrower" by Myron

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 9, Episode 20 - "The Trouble with Trillions"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - The statue is on display at the Springsonian Museum that Homer and Marge are visiting.

Sculpture that represents Burns' or a Burns ancestor in the hall of his home.

55

Leonardo Da Vinci

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 2 - "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"

Also Appears: Season 16, Episode 19 - "Thank God It's Doomsday" - An animated version of Leonardo Da Vinci paints Dean Martin in heaven.

While at the Thomas Edison museum, Homer sees a chart that Edison made comparing his own inventions to Leonardo Da Vinci's.

56

Andy Warhol

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 7 - "Lisa Gets an 'A'"

Also Appears: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art" - Homer falls asleep in the Springsonian and is transported into different paintings. In the dream, Andy Warhol throws cans of split pea soup at Homer while yelling "Soups on, fatty!". Homer wakes up shouting "Andy, no!". Season 12, Episode 19 - "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" - An animated version of Andy Warhol is waiting in line to go to heaven.

Lisa roots through the store's freezer for ice cream flavors that are named for celebrities (like Ben and Jerry's). She finds one called “Candy Warhol”.

57

"Tyrannosaurus Facing a Triceratops" by Charles Knight

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 8 - "Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble"

Also Appears: N/A

Print of the painting above young Homer's bed.

58

"A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Barney draws a version of the painting at Moe's and tries to use it to pay for his drinks.

59

"Venice: The Dogana (Customs Office) and San Giorgio Maggiore" by Joseph Turner

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Marge and Homer go to Springsonian Museum. Homer is inspired to flood Springfield after seeing the grand canals of Venice. Later, Marge paints Springfield now flooded and her painting looks reminiscent of the Turner's work.

60

"The Barefoot Girl" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Marge and Homer go the Springsonian Museum and there's a whole range of Picasso paintings from periods of his work.

61

"Seated Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: Season 15, Episode 1 - "Treehouse of Horror XIV" - Bart steals paintings while time is stopped and they're found around The Simpson home.

Marge and Homer go the Springsonian Museum and there's a whole range of Picasso paintings from periods of his work.

62

"The Old Guitarist" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - Mom and Pop Art
Also Appears: Season 15, Episode 1 - Treehouse of Horror XIV - Bart steals paintings while time is stopped and they're found around The Simpson home.

Marge and Homer go the Springsonian Museum and there's a whole range of Picasso paintings from periods of his work.

63

"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - Mom and Pop Art

Also Appears: Season 15, Episode 1 - "Treehouse of Horror XIV" - Bart steals paintings while time is stopped and they're found around The Simpson home.

Marge and Homer go the Springsonian Museum and there's a whole range of Picasso paintings from periods of his work.

64

"Head of a Man" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: Season 15, Episode 1 - "Treehouse of Horror XIV" - Bart steals paintings while time is stopped and they're found around The Simpson home.

Marge and Homer go the Springsonian Museum and there's a whole range of Picasso paintings from periods of his work.

65

"Homage to the Square" by Josef Albers

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Marge and Homer go to the Springsonian Museum and an interpretation of a Josef Albers painting hangs in the gallery.

66

"The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Homer falls asleep in the Springsonian Museum and is transported into different tableaux. He wakes up as the main personage in "The Sleeping Gypsy" and the lion from the painting licks him.

67

"Untitled" by Mark Rothko

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: Season 15, Episode 6 - "Today, I Am A Clown" - Crude homage to a Rothko painting in Krusty's house.

A painting of red, yellow and blue stripes hangs in the Springsonian Museum. It's likely an homage to Mark Rothko's work.

68

Rene Magritte; A Sculpture by Alexander Calder

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Sign outside Springsonian Museum, “Where the elite meet Magritte”. Additionally, the sculpture outside on display in front the Springsonian Museum is a reference to work by Alexander Calder.

69

Outsider Art

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: Season 18, Episode 14 - "Yokel Chords" - The Cat Lady hurls painted cats at a canvas creating outsider art that is then sold at a gallery for a high price.

Banners at museum where Homer exhibits paintings “Inside: Outsider Art”. All of Homer's sculptures are considered outsider art.

70

Jasper Johns

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Throughout the episode, Jasper Johns is stealing objects, including light bulbs. Johns' early paintings and pieces involved found objects, like light bulbs. Perhaps he was stealing items for his new artwork.

71

"Pencil Sculpture" by Claes Oldenberg

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

A giant pencil sculpture is being installed at the Springsonian Museum that Homer and Marge are visiting.

72

"Guernica" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: Season 13, Episode 22 - "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" - Otto is carrying the painting down the street past The Simpsons' house as the looting carries on in Springfield.

A verbal reference by Burns - he wanted to buy Guernica but he didn't as he bought “White Christmas” instead and made a fortune off of it.

73

Christo

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Lisa references this installation artist when giving Homer ideas.

74

Cartoon by Matt Groening

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

A cartoon from Matt Groening's “Life in Hell” hangs in the Springsonian Museum which Homer and Marge are visiting.

75

Walt Disney Signature

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Homer Simpsons' signature which is displayed at the art show, looks a lot like Walt Disney's signature.

76

"Haystacks" by Claude Monet

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

The painting hangs in the Springsonian Museum that Homer and Marge visit.

77

"Suprematist Composition" by Kazimir Malevich

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 19 - "Mom and Pop Art"

Also Appears: N/A

Painting in the Springsonian Museum that Homer and Marge visit.

78

"Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 22 - "They Saved Lisa's Brain"

Also Appears: Season 20, Episode 20 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure" - Maggie paints a copy of starry night on the wall using nail polish.

Seen on the Vincent Van Gogh Exhibit Truck that's attacked after the gross out contest.

79

"Pair of Leather Boots" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 22 - "They Saved Lisa's Brain"

Also Appears: N/A

Seen on the Vincent Van Gogh Exhibit Truck that's attacked after the gross out contest.

80

"Still Life of Open Bible" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 22 - "They Saved Lisa's Brain"

Also Appears: N/A

Seen on the Vincent Van Gogh Exhibit Truck that's attacked after the gross out contest.

81

"Self Portrait with Felt Hat" by Vincent Van Gogh

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 10, Episode 22 - "They Saved Lisa's Brain"

Also Appears: N/A

Seen on the Vincent Van Gogh Exhibit Truck that's attacked after the gross out contest. Homer smears low fat pudding on Van Gogh's beard so it resembles his own stubble.

82

"The Holy Virgin Mary" by Chris Ofili

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 11, Episode 10 - "Little Big Mom"

Also Appears: N/A

Chalkboard gag - "I will not create art from dung." References the Chris Ofili's painting, "The Holy Virgin Mary," featuring the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung.

83

"Still life with Basket of Apples" by Paul Cezanne

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 11, Episode 12 - "The Mansion Family"

Also Appears: N/A

Parody painting with Burn's face as one of the apples.

84

Ming Vase

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 11, Episode 12 - "The Mansion Family"

Also Appears: N/A

Vase in the front foyer of Burns' home.

85

"Raising the Flag" on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 12, Episode 14 - "New Kids on the Blecch"

Also Appears: Season 13, Episode 10 - "Half-Decent Proposal" - A graphic used for a Kent Brockman newscast features men hoisting American money as an homage to the photograph. Season 14, Episode 4 - "Large Marge" - The Iwo Jima veterans raise the flag at Springfield Elementary before being knocked over by Milhouse who vomits on the flag. Season 14, Episode 14 - "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" - During Krusty's campaign advertisement, he puts his face on all four marines hoisting the American flag.

Party Posse's raising of the tether-ball pole initially similar to the Marines' raising of the flag.

86

"Marilyn" by Andy Warhol

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 13, Episode 10 - "Half-Decent Proposal"

Also Appears: Season 14, Episode 18 - "Dude, Where's my Ranch?" - Giant images of Flanders on the big screen in the Warhol pop art style. Season 15, Episode 6 - "Today, I Am A Clown" - Krusty the Klown in Warhol style above Krusty's couch. Season 21, Episode 10 - "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" - Krusty the Klown in Warhol style in the hallway in the studio where Krusty's show is filmed.

Artie's office in Silicon Valley is covered with paintings of Marge done in various parodies of famous artists including that of Andy Warhol.

87

Reference to Lichtenstein

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 13, Episode 10 - "Half-Decent Proposal"

Also Appears: N/A

Artie's office in Silicon Valley is covered with paintings of Marge done in various parodies of famous artists including that of Roy Lichtenstein.

88

"Guitar" by Pablo Picasso

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 14, Episode 5 - "Helter Shelter"

Also Appears: Season 17, Episode 15 - "Homer Simpson, This Is You Wife." Painting in Lenny's apartment. Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands" and season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You." In episode couch gag for both, The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum.

Painting in Lenny's apartment.

89

"Tank Man" by Jeff Widener

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 14, Episode 14 - "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"

Also Appears: Season 16, Episode 12 - "Goo Goo Gai Pain." Selma stands up to Madame Wu with her new adopted baby in a homage to the famous photo from 1989 in Tiananmen Square.

During Krusty's campaign advertisement, he puts his face on the protester in Tiananmen Square.

90

Gehry Residence by Franky Gehry

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 14, Episode 16 - "The Seven-Beer Snitch"

Also Appears: N/A

Frank Gehry checks his mail at his Santa Monica residence.

91

Guggenheim Bilbao by Frank Gehry

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 14, Episode 16 - "The Seven-Beer Snitch"

Also Appears: N/A

Frank Gehry checks his mail at his Santa Monica residence and the mailbox resembles the Guggenheim Bilbao.

92

Walt Disney Opera House by Frank Gehry

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 14, Episode 16 - "The Seven-Beer Snitch"

Also Appears: Season 20, Episode 20 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure." Maggie makes the Walt Disney Opera House out of building blocks.

Frank Gehry designs the Springfield Concert Hall that is reminiscent of the Walt Disney Opera House, also a Gehry design.

93

Cinematheque Francaise by Frank Gehry

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 14, Episode 16 - "The Seven-Beer Snitch"

Also Appears: N/A

Frank Gehry's work is featured on the cover of Concert Hall Weekly, which prompts Marge the idea to build Springfield a concert hall.The building is reminiscent of the Cinematheque Francaise building.

94

"The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild" by Rembrandt

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 15, Episode 7 - 'Tis the fifteenth season

Also Appears: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands" during the episode couch gag. The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum. Same occurs on season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You."

Poster on cart with Moe's face on a character in the painting.

95

Portrait of Chairman Mao

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 16, Episode 12 - "Goo Goo Gai Pain"

Also Appears: N/A

A portrait of Chairman Mao hangs above Homer's hospital bed. Madame Wu spies through the nostrils.

96

"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 17, Episode 2 - "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"

Also Appears: N/A

Parodied as "The Land of Wild Beasts". The Simpsons see stamps based on the book at the museum and later Lisa dreams that she's in the Land of Wild Beasts.

97

"Self Portrait with a Monkey" by Frida Kahlo

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 17, Episode 19 - Girls Just Want to Have Sums

Also Appears: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands", during the episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum.

Painting in the hallway of a the new all-girls section of the school.

98

"Jack in the Pulpit II" by Georgia O'Keefe

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 17, Episode 19 - "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"

Also Appears: N/A

Painting in the hallway of a the new all-girls section of the school.

99

"Jazz Cutouts" by Henri Matisse

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 17, Episode 19 - "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"

Also Appears: N/A

Two Matisse paintings in style of the Matisse's Jazz are on display in the hallway of the new all-girls section of the school.

100

"The Star OR Dance on Stage" by Edgar Degas

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 18, Episode 14 - "Yokel Chords"

Also Appears: N/A

Comic Book Guy shows Cletus' kids art books at the coffee shop with the famous painting on the cover.

101

"Un Chien Andalou" by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 18, Episode 14 - "Yokel Chords"

Also Appears: N/A

Lisa takes Cletus' kids to see the famous art house short film.

102

Edward Gorey

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 18, Episode 14 - "Yokel Chords"

Also Appears: N/A

The animation for the "The Dark Stanley" story that Bart tells his fellow students to scare them is done in the style of Edward Gorey.

103

Bird's Nest

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 20, Episode 20 - "Four Great Women and a Manicure"

Also Appears: N/A

Maggie makes a version of the Bird's Nest (Bejing's Olympic Stadium) out of building blocks.

104

"Sky and Water I" by M.C. Escher

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 21, Episode 12 - "Boy Meets Curl"

Also Appears: N/A

Homer sees his Inuit shaman from The Simpsons Movie in the streets of Vancouver and they have a vision together. Escher's Sky and Water flies through the sky in the background.

105

Native Canadian Art - Totem Poles by the Haida People

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 21, Episode 12 - "Boy Meets Curl"

Also Appears: N/A

Bart and Lisa walk around Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics, walking past totem poles inspired by Haida art.

106

Banksy Original Animation

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 3 - "MoneyBART"

Also Appears: N/A

Episode opening by Banksy. Workers at an Asian factory are drawing couch scenes on cels, one of which is dipped in hazardous liquid by a child; beneath them, more workers put out Simpsons T-shirts, stuff Bart dolls with stuffing made by putting small animals through a woodchipper, seal boxes with the tongue of a detached dolphin's head, and punch holes in DVDs with a unicorn's horn, all inside a factory shaped like the 20th Century Fox logo.

107

Bronze statue of Teddy Roosevelt

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - Homer Scissorhands

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You"

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

108

"George Washington (Lansdowne portrait)" by Gilbert Stuart

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - Homer Scissorhands

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You"

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

109

The Star Spangled Banner

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You".

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

110

Painting of the American Clipper Ship Coeur de Lion

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You".

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

111

"Fire in the Evening" by Paul Klee

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You".

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

112

"Convergence" by Jackson Pollock

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You". Episode couch gag: The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum.

113

"Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You". Episode couch gag: The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum.

114

"Bust of Lafayette" by Jean-Antoine Houdon

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You"- Episode couch gag: The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons' living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum.

115

Albert Einstein Portrait

Season, Episode, Show Title: Season 22, Episode 20 - "Homer Scissorhands"

Also Appears: Season 23, Episode 4 - "Replaceable You" - Episode couch gag: The Simpsons living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch.

Episode couch gag - The Simpsons living room is being housed in The Smithsonian museum and the family breaks in to get to their couch. The family blends in with the artworks as they make their way through the museum.