Western artists have freely celebrated the natural human form since the Renaissance, but seldom have they found as much vibrant beauty within it as French painter Pierre Bonnard.  With a career spanning the nineteenth and [...]

About six months ago, a guest on Antiques Roadshow was shocked to discover that two 19th-century watercolor paintings purchased by her great-grandmother could be worth six figures. The revelation occurred when the hit PBS show [...]

“After great pain, a formal feelin g comes.” - Emily Dickinson Pippa Hale-Lynch’s oil painting, “Grief: Self Portrait with Jam” (featured at the top of the page) has been awarded the Inside Art Award in [...]

By Realism Today Unlike many of the artists we cover, Janie Kinnane (b. 1989) never pursued an art career. Instead, it pursued her. One of 10 siblings growing up on a coastal farm in Rhode Island, Kinnane enjoyed [...]

Catalan landscape painter Joaquin Mir Trinxet (1873 - 1940) led an ill-fated 19th century crusade to get Spanish artists to embrace modernism without letting go of Spain’s proud realist tradition. Gloriously successful as art, the [...]

It’s winter. Brittle, bitter days rattle the windowpanes and ice the driveways. In paintings though, there is no time nor change; there, the May winds linger still, and the fruit trees blossom in a perpetual [...]

For a long time, acrylics had its devotees and its detractors – either you loved them or you avoided them, mostly because they dry super-fast. However, newer trends have enabled acrylics to behave more like [...]

(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art - Revised Mobile Museum of Art October 12, 2024–February 2, 2025 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art June 12–September 17, 2025   There’s still time to see (Un)Settled: The Landscape [...]

Icon of 19th century American painting Thomas Cole often found himself disillusioned with the very public he’d helped create for his work. Though he touched off the historically important Hudson River School style, by the [...]

Nathanael Gray focused his painting for an entire year by painting in the Lake Tahoe Basin. At the end of it all, he selected his best and exhibited them in a show titled “A Year [...]