Edward Hopper has a strong claim to being the Whitney Museum of American Art’s favorite artist: an institution within the institution.
We’re No Angels: Women and allegory in the art of Mary Lizzie Macomber
Mary Lizzie Macomber was among the late nineteenth-century American artists who closely emulated the figurative work of the Pre-Raphaelites
Current and Coming: Above and beyond at LACMA
Everyone is familiar with mid-century New York’s abstract expressionist scene; less so, perhaps, with the Transcendental Painting Group of the American Southwest…
Artist profile: Birds of a Feather
A visit to the home and studio of artist-cum-naturalist Mary Jo McConnell
Marriage à la Mode
Design styles from art nouveau to modernism informed the intertwined legacy of Hector and Adeline Guimard
Curious Objects: What two paintings from the 1930s can tell us about women’s issues
This month, Ben learns how two women painters made their way during a time when the art world was still male-dominated
“Miss Dimock is not orthodox at all” (From our Archives)
William Glackens was regarded as a modern artist by the standards of his day; the woman he married would have been considered thoroughly modern even by the standards of our own
A portrait takes shape (From our Archives)
In late October 1916 the American impressionist artist William Merritt Chase lay dying at his town house on East Fifteenth Street in Manhattan
The Unexpected Art of Mary Sully
A new book examines the singular work of an American Indian modernist.
A rediscovered Delacroix debuts in Houston
Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled its latest acquisition: a newly rediscovered smaller and earlier version of Eugène Delacroix’s masterpiece Women of Algiers in Their Apartment