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 ...
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 ...
Chances are that you have never heard of the "Christy Girl" or its creator, Howard Chandler Christy. However, Christy was the most famous painter of the Jazz Age. He knew presidents from Teddy ...
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 ...
A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. MONDRIAN: ...
The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...
The most cloying American artist of the 20th century was almost certainly Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012), whose popular paintings depicted what seemed to be well-lighted houses for elves. His work, as ...
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