Happy Valentine's Day

Acrylic on canvas
16" x 16"
Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):


To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.


—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5