Using this dual narrative to draw parallels between two eras of rapid technological advancement and socio-political turbulence, Oscar Zarate's long-awaited new graphic novel Thomas Girtin: The ...

The painter Winslow Homer was a man of few words. He kept no journals. He burned most of his correspondence. He also never married, ensuring that no heirs would survive to recount the details of his ...

Paul Fisher, professor of American studies at Wellesley College, begins his full-scale biography, "The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World," with a confession that Sargent, a great American ...

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In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...

The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint died nearly eight decades ago in relative obscurity, but you might not realize this if you look her up today. Her paintings—large-scale, vivid masterpieces infused ...