A reader asks: I saw a painting that I really like and the gallery owner told me that the artist had an Absolut ad. Not that I doubt the salesperson (grin) but how can I check? The artist is Ivan Jenson. Can you help?

We can absolutely help!

There are several easy ways to do this. First, if you remember, the Absolut ads all say ‘Absolut something’ so I’d search in Google for “Absolut Jenson” and you’ll see that the first several results clearly confirm that the gallery was correct. In fact, the first result shows a neat listing of all the ads.

But you know us. Even though Google is so easy and so great, we need to tell you another way. And you’ll be glad we did, because this is a really groovy resource. (Thanks to Garret for the pointer!) There’s this great database of advertising called Ads of the World. You can browse by brand, agency, keyword, category, country. It’s great. No, it’s not complete. Not even close. But there are some really terrific ads here. If you choose Absolut, you’ll be bummed to see that the Jenson is not there, however. But we bet that you’ll get lost in the exploration and have a really good time anyway.

And since we’re throwing out other ways of approaching this, we went to Ask.com and searched for absolut ads and found Absolutads.com which is where we easily found this ad.

We say buy the painting!