A regional museum in western Maryland revisits the work of the early American portraitist Joshua Johnson
Current and coming: Making Waves at the Peabody Essex
Curators of a current exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum argue that images of the sea have taken on deeper meanings
Freake Out!
An art historian posits the identity of one of the most famous limners of Puritan new England
Bringing the Art of the People to Boston
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts offers a reappraisal of the institution’s foundational folk art collection
Portraits, Purpose, and Perceptions
Early American Folk Artists Ruth W. Shute and Samuel A. Shute
On books: July/August 2021
What effect did 20th century social and cultural developments have on studio jewelry?
End notes: The Struggle Search Continues
Three of the missing six panels in Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series make their debut in a new exhibition
An Immigrant Artist of the Jazz Age
A forthcoming exhibition at the New-York Historical Society cast a spotlight on the under-sung Winold Reiss
How American Weathervanes Became Art
An excerpt from the book that is the basis for a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum
Empathy on Her Palette
What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency