I'll guess NYU. On edit--Roy Lichtenstein.

Albert?

I don't know.

Title: Forget It! Forget Me! (1962).

http://artsamerica.org/blog/genre/art-museums/art-at-the-origin-the-early-1960s-at-the-rose-museum-of-art-in-waltham/

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Tufts.
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/albert-bierstadt/valley-of-the-yosemite-1864

http://www.mfa.org/about

Valley of the Yosemite, right?

This was a man with an obsession.

I have looked In the Valley of the Yosemite, Up the VOY, Down the VOY, under it, through it, all over the whole darned state of California, through the Rockies, the Tetons and Yellowstone and could not find that painting - once I realized I had found the wrong one at first, of course.

I now know what obsession is - his and mine. Thank you for stopping me. I was going blind and getting a headache.

That's where Frisco gets a lot of their drinking water.

but my memory is gone. Kicking for McCain at an orgy!

is pretty damn famous! That's a HINT!

But I cheated - which I didn't need to do because it is signed. :0}

Matisse?

I love the story behind Matisse's "cutouts". If I recall correctly, his hands were too messed up to paint but that wasn't going to stop him from creating beauty. Wonderful.

but did check the signature to make sure.

My guess for #4 is Matisse, who switched to paper when he could no longer hold a brush to paint.

him...

just knows. Oil or watercolor, his stuff is iconic up there.

I expect all of those to be wrong except Lichtenstein and Homer

The painting is part of his Formulation: Articulation series.

http://www.artspace.com/josef_albers/formulation_articulation_portfolio_1_30

Library Acquires Josef Albers’ Formulation: Articulation (2008)
http://blog.scad.edu/speccoll/2008/11/18/library-acquires-josef-alberss-formulation-articulation/

Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation
https://blog.scad.edu/speccoll/exhibits/josef-albers-formulation-articulation/

places and very confusing...it is not in Savannah and I would guess that the school gallery where it resides is very proud of its acquisition...so I have to say no here.

Could this painting be at the museum and art center there?

this particular theme, tho...so I dunno...

only he usually sticks cows in the landscape.

If it was painted by him, there might be a good chance the painting hangs near UC Berkeley.

I need to research this guy...thanks for the heads up!

At Bowdoin College Museum of Art - Brunswick, ME.

Knew it was Homer but had to look for where. Love me some Homer.

Even though others already had identified it as a Homer, it was hard to find. Took me a while, but I got to enjoy many other Homers along the way.

I got you to researching other works of art by Winslow Homer!

...as well as a lot of other subjects before you ever get to The End of the Hunt.

Very clever, CTyankee. Very clever, indeed!

the Challenge is all about?

But another source said it was at Vassar. Looks like I have to check further...

One is in CA:

MAJOR HINT: the main character in this painting is, himself, another famous artist.

Looks like him.

So...???

OK, folks, here's your big HINT!

At Yale University Art Gallery.
http://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/picasso-goes-heaven

This took a helluva lot of searching to track down, even knowing it is an homage to Picasso!

Tell me how you did it...

I tried all kinds of search terms, including portrait, painting, caricature, depiction, homage, and pastiche of or to Picasso. Sometimes I added college collections, museums or exhibits. I aso searched on individual artists who were Picasso's friends or whose work he influenced. I even looked carefully at the signature on the work but couldn't make it out, and an artist signature dictionary was too extensive to be any help.

I gave up several times, but it gnawed at my subconscious. Eventually I repeated some of the searches, limiting it to American artists. My final search term was simply, "american artists caricature of picasso"--and Viola, Bob's your uncle! The image came up on artsy, and from there it was a quick hop to Yale.

http://artsy.net/artist/red-grooms

Without specifying "American artists" the image never came up in my searches for caricatures of Picasso.

Your humble and somewhat obsessive art detective...

I was thinking of showing Grooms' "Cedar Bar" cuz I love it so much but his sig is very prominent on that one.

I had a lot of fun romping through college/university art gallery sites online...

On the really tough ones it just takes patience and persistence. The wrinkled raincoat is optional.

It's too bad you couldn't use Cedar Bar. I know you don't want to alter an image, but I think it would be legit for you to white out or black out a signature that would give the answer away too easily. Just note in the OP that the alteration is yours.

Altering an image is pretty simple--just a matter of putting your image into an image editing program to make your changes. In my operating system, I'd just use MS Paint to paint over the signature, save my changes, then upload the altered image to my hosting account.

Thanks, CTyankee, for another educational and fun Challenge!

I understand that you are just trying to be helpful. But it's the artist's "music" and that to me is sacrosanct.

More next Friday! As always, you are my best art Challenge friend!