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This is a list of art references in The Simpsons.

For references to famous photographs, see Photography references.

Episodes[edit]

Picture Season Episode number Episode name Reference
1 9 "Life on the Fast Lane" Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler.
11 "The Crepes of Wrath" Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies by Claude Monet.
Champ de blé aux corbeaux by Vincent van Gogh.
Le rêve by Henri Rousseau.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet.
2 14 "Bart Gets an "F"" Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze.
22 "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" Whitewashing the Fence by Norman Rockwell.
David by Michelangelo.
23 "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
24 "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.
25 "The Way We Was" Girl at Mirror by Norman Rockwell.
29 "Bart's Dog Gets an "F"" The Falling Soldier by Robert Capa.
30 "Old Money" Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
31 "Brush with Greatness" Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol.
Ascending and Descending by M. C. Escher.
A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
35 "Blood Feud" The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
3 44 "Saturdays of Thunder" Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.
56 "Black Widower" Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell.
4 68 "Mr. Plow" The False Mirror by René Magritte.
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth.
76 "Last Exit to Springfield" Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch.
5 85 "Rosebud" Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch.
Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler.
86 "Treehouse of Horror IV" Van Gogh self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh.
The Persistence of Memory and The Dream by Salvador Dalí.
Ascending and Descending by M. C. Escher.
The Scream by Edvard Munch.
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David.
Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso.
The Son of Man by René Magritte.
A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
Melancholy and Mystery of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico.
A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
90 "The Last Temptation of Homer" The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
96 "Homer the Vigilante" The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
and
Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell.
97 "Homer Loves Flanders" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
98 "Bart Gets an Elephant" American Gothic by Grant Wood.
6 110 "Bart's Girlfriend" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
112 "Homer Badman" Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch.
115 "Homer the Great" Relativity by M. C. Escher.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
121 "A Star Is Burns" The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
123 "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler.
128 "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
Piet Mondrian composition by Piet Mondrian.
7 144 "Lisa the Iconoclast" Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell.
Athenaeum Portrait by Gilbert Stuart.
150 "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael.
Madonna and Child by Sandro Botticelli.
Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery by Han van Meegeren.
152 "Homerpalooza" The Scream by Edvard Munch.
8 156 "The Homer They Fall" Dempsey and Firpo by George Bellows.
171 "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
9 181 "Lisa's Sax" The Scream by Edvard Munch.
David by Michelangelo.
The Son of Man by René Magritte.
195 "Lisa the Simpson" Painting, 1933 by Joan Miró.
198 "The Trouble with Trillions" Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze.
Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler.
10 221 "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"" T. rex and Triceratops by Charles R. Knight.
222 "Mom and Pop Art" Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.
Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol.
Arlequin accoudé by Pablo Picasso.
Head of a man by Pablo Picasso.
The Barefoot Girl by Pablo Picasso.
The Dogano, San Giorgio, Citella, from the Steps of the Europa by J. M. W. Turner.
Discobolus by Myron.
A Large Pencil by Claes Oldenburg.
The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso.
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau.
Three Musicians by Pablo Picasso.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso.
Piet Mondrian composition by Piet Mondrian.
David by Michelangelo.
Piet Mondrian composition by Piet Mondrian.
225 "They Saved Lisa's Brain" A Pair of Shoes,

The Starry Night,
Window in the Studio,
Still Life with Bible,
Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat,
Still life with bottle, two glasses, cheese and bread,
and Paul Gauguin's Armchair by Vincent van Gogh.

226 "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" The Spirit of '76 by Archibald Willard.
11 234 "Take My Wife, Sleaze" American Gothic by Grant Wood.
238 "The Mansion Family" A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
The Basket of Apples by Paul Cézanne.
Whistler's Mother by James McNeill Whistler.
241 "Missionary: Impossible" The Son of Man by René Magritte.
244 "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
248 "Behind the Laughter" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
12 252 "Lisa the Tree Hugger" The Tetons and the Snake River by Ansel Adams.
13 275 "She of Little Faith" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
291 "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge" Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
14 296 "Helter Shelter" Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
299 "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Lunch atop a Skyscraper by Charles Clyde Ebbets.
300 "The Strong Arms of the Ma" Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat by Vincent van Gogh.
301 "Pray Anything" Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze.
309 "Dude, Where's My Ranch?" Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol.
310 "Old Yeller-Belly" The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
15 314 "Treehouse of Horror XIV" Head of a man by Pablo Picasso.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso.
The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso.
Arlequin accoudé by Pablo Picasso.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
319 "Today I Am a Clown" Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol.
16 354 "Thank God It's Doomsday" A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.
Haystacks near a Farm in Provence by Vincent van Gogh.
Syndics of the Drapers' Guild by Rembrandt.
Piet Mondrian composition by Piet Mondrian.
17 362 "See Homer Run" The Scream by Edvard Munch.
375 "Girls Just Want to Have Sums" Jazz by Henri Matisse.
Self-Portrait with Monkey by Frida Kahlo.
Jack-in-Pulpit - No. 2 by Georgia O'Keeffe.
18 385 "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)" David by Michelangelo.
391 "Springfield Up" Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth.
392 "Yokel Chords" The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.
] The Star by Edgar Degas.
] Women and Birds at Sunrise by Joan Miró.
400 "You Kent Always Say What You Want" Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol.
19 402 "The Homer of Seville" The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
411 "That '90s Show" Moonbird by Joan Miró.
20 428 "The Burns and the Bees" Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Whistler's Mother by James Whistler.
The Scream by Edvard Munch.
433 "Gone Maggie Gone" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
440 "Four Great Women and a Manicure" The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.
21 442 "Homer the Whopper" Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
448 "Rednecks and Broomsticks" Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell.
453 "Boy Meets Curl" Sky and Water I by M. C. Escher.
458 "American History X-cellent" The Spirit of '76 by Archibald Willard.
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya.
22 475 "Flaming Moe" A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet.
476 "Homer the Father" The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.
480 "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams" American Gothic by Grant Wood.
484 "Homer Scissorhands" Convergence by Jackson Pollock.
23 489 "Treehouse of Horror XXII" Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies by Claude Monet.
David by Michelangelo.
Convergence by Jackson Pollock.
496 "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Lunch atop a Skyscraper by Charles Clyde Ebbets.
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States by Howard Chandler Christy.
501 "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol.
24 509 "Moonshine River" The Subway by George Tooker.
519 "The Changing of the Guardian" Dancers bending down by Edgar Degas.
523 "Black-Eyed, Please" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
and
Head of Christ by Warner Sallman.
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin
and
Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch.
527 "Whiskey Business" Charging Bull by Arturo Di Modica.
Cloud Gate (nicknamed "The Bean") by Anish Kapoor.
25 541 "Specs and the City" Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
543 "The Man Who Grew Too Much" Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David.
Syndics of the Drapers' Guild by Rembrandt.
Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles of Athens.
545 "The War of Art" Convergence by Jackson Pollock.
Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar by Rembrandt.
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
and
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau.
Over the Town by Marc Chagall.
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth.
Water Lily by Claude Monet.
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt.
549 "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
26 555 "Super Franchise Me" A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.
557 "Opposites A-Frack" Athenaeum Portrait by Gilbert Stuart.
562 "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner" Femme aux Bras Croisés by Pablo Picasso.
Bacchus by Peter Paul Rubens.
569 "Waiting for Duffman" Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze.
27 581 "Lisa with an "S"" Lunch atop a Skyscraper by Charles Clyde Ebbets.
583 "Barthood" Self-Portrait with Monkey by Frida Kahlo.
587 "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" LOVE by Robert Indiana
and
The Kiss by Auguste Rodin.
Girl at Mirror by Norman Rockwell.
588 "Gal of Constant Sorrow" Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange.
589 "Lisa the Veterinarian" Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze.
591 "The Burns Cage" Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp.
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix.
Grande Odalisque by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Et l'or de leur corps by Paul Gauguin.
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon by Pablo Picasso.
L'Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti.
594 "To Courier with Love" Napoléon by Émile Seurre.
28 597 "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
601 "Trust but Clarify" Discobolus by Myron.
American Gothic by Grant Wood.
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer.
605 "The Last Traction Hero" The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya.
611 "The Cad and the Hat" Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer.
618 "Dogtown" A Friend in Need by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
29 620 "Springfield Splendor" Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.
625 "Singin' in the Lane" Whaam! by Roy Lichtenstein
Apple Tree by Gustav Klimt
and
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol.
The Scream by Edvard Munch.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet.
629 "Frink Gets Testy" The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt.
630 "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" The Poetess by Joan Miró.
The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough.
At the Water's Edge by Paul Cézanne.
30 642 "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
650 "Mad About the Toy" Prada Marfa by Elmgreen & Dragset.
651 "The Girl on the Bus" The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya.
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
and
Rabbit by Jeff Koons.
658 "Girl's in the Band" The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.
Portrait of Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) by Joseph Willibrord Mähler.
32 687 "Now Museum, Now You Don't" The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Leonardo da Vinci.
Profile of an old man. by Leonardo da Vinci.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Baptism of Christ by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci.
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet.
The Triumph of Galatea by Raphael.
The Last Judgment by Hieronymus Bosch.
Atlas by Lee Lawrie.
Man at the Crossroads by Diego Rivera.
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh.
Olive Grove, Saint-Rémy by Vincent van Gogh.
The Factory at Asnières by Vincent van Gogh.
The Potato Eaters by Vincent van Gogh.
Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van Gogh.
Farmhouse in Provence by Vincent van Gogh.
Bulb Fields by Vincent van Gogh.
Women Picking Olives by Vincent van Gogh.
First Steps, after Millet by Vincent van Gogh.
Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy (Asnières) by Vincent van Gogh.
696 "Diary Queen" Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell
Girl at Mirror by Norman Rockwell
and
The Runaway by Norman Rockwell.
Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell.
700 "Manger Things" The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
33 722 "Pretty Whittle Liar" Pietà by Michelangelo.
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
34 745 "Pin Gal" The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol.
36 771 "Desperately Seeking Lisa" Untitled by Jean-Michel Basquiat
Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons
Ohhh...Alright... by Roy Lichtenstein
Faces by Kenny Scharf
Nelson Mandela Mural by Shepard Fairey
The Scream by Edvard Munch
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
The Nose by Alberto Giacometti
and
Self Portrait (1986, purple) by Andy Warhol.
37 793 "Treehouse of Horror XXXVI" Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol.
D+ 808 "Simpsley" Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat
The Entombment of Christ by Caravaggio.
Medusa by Caravaggio.
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya.
38 814 "Testing 1-2-3" Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.


Books[edit]

Picture Book Reference
Bart Simpson's Guide to Life Winged Victory of Samothrace.
David by Michelangelo.
Mobile by Alexander Calder.
Homer Simpson's Little Book of Laziness Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Greetings from the Simpsons (2007) The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.
The Simpsons Guide to Springfield Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell.


Comics[edit]

Picture Comic issue Story name Reference
Simpsons Comics
Simpsons Comics #131 The Simpsons Comics Internationale! The Son of Man by René Magritte.
Simpsons Comics #159 Big Monty Pietà by Michelangelo


Commecials[edit]

Picture Commecial Reference
Hard Times Buccleuch Madonna by Leonardo da Vinci.
Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael.
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol
Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch
Chez Tortoni by Édouard Manet
The Concert by Johannes Vermeer.


Merchandise[edit]

Picture Product Reference
The Simpsons 1994 Fun Calendar Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
The Simpsons 1995 Fun Calendar The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo.
The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí.
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin.
Hopeless by Roy Lichtenstein.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli.
St. Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna.
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet.
The Son of Man by René Magritte.
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
The Scream by Edvard Munch.
Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Abstract impressionist works by Mark Rothko.
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.