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
Portraits by a Minister’s Daughter
New scholarship offers insights into the life of the elusive early American artist Mary B. Tucker
Painted Prayers of Thanks at Princeton
Like the literature of magical realism, the lovely painted metal Mexican retablos currently on view at the Princeton University Art Museum cast memory, bonds of affection, calamity, and averted disaster in the intersecting space between modern times and the immutable past.
In Phoenix, a Revelatory Agnes Pelton Show
The painter Agnes Pelton took inspiration from esoteric philosophies and becomes another early twentieth-century woman abstractionist receiving her due.
Cast in a New Light
An exhibition at the Frick Collection offers a chance to reassess the art o f Renaissance portraitist Giovanni Battista Moroni
A Fresh Look at a Few Old Pastels
Henrietta Johnston’s portraits of Colonel John Moore and his wife, Frances Lambert Moore