In the extensive publications about John James Audubon (Fig. 1), the artist-naturalist who was America’s first great watercolorist, his art has not received the same attention as his dramatic life ...

It was that year, in the rooms of his home, that Rembrandt Peale ... with gems of light.” Peale’s objective was providing lighting for his “saloon of paintings,” and he startled ...

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In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the ...

The canvas, ground, and surface pigments, were all compared to those of known Peale paintings, which allowed experts to determine “with a high degree of confidence” that it was indeed by the ...

30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm.) ...

How do you discuss Rembrandt's paintings in your book? Historically, studies of the transatlantic slave trade in early modern painting (about 1400-1700) have looked at paintings that directly ...

Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each ...

Among the ceremony's accolades are the coveted "big four" categories – album of the year, song of the year, record of the year and best new artist. The best new artist award made its first ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings. By Corey Kilgannon Mort ...

Faye Anderson, a public policy consultant and community historian, was on her way to Independence Hall a couple of weeks ago for her research on Moses Williams, a Black silhouette artist who had been ...