The whereabouts of a masterwork by 19th-century French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) were unknown between the time of its recorded sale in 1850 until 2018, when it was discovered in a Paris apartment. Now it’s coming to live in the US. […]
T.C. Cannon combined contemporary Western art influences with native traditions, making astute social and political statements with wry humor. He did not want his art to be pigeon-holed as native. He was an artist, period. […]
The Kimbell Museum’s Monet: Late Years exhibition heralds his lifelong vitality as a painter and shows that in his later years — with the suppression of detail in favor of increasing expressiveness – he was a pioneer of abstraction. […]
The Renaissance was a time when Christian piety and rational discovery challenged and justified each other — and Leonardo da Vinci was a man of his time. Everything he did, he did with purpose. […]
This small exhibition shows how this ancient type of paint is being used in widely varied ways by artists in modern times. […]
The Chihuly Collection at the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL is a textbook example of the artist’s creative genius, from his glasswork to exhibit design. […]
These two preeminent surrealists presented an alternative view of the world, constantly challenging pre-conceived notions of what is real. While creating familiar, realistic pictorial representation, both artists introduced unexpected, inexplicable details and relationships into their works. […]
“Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.“ Combining the rational with the fantastical — in architecture, art and human terms — the Salvador Dalí Museum celebrates the life and work of Salvador Domingo […]
A small group of five of Marcel Duchamp’s early oil paintings in the collection of the Ringling Museum of Art surprises those who know Duchamp only by his “readymades.” […]
Carl Rungius — avid sportsman, ethical hunter, outdoors-man, and superb painter of the North American Western landscape and wildlife –was the most important big game painter and the first career wildlife artist in North America in the early 20th century. […]