Gustave Caillebotte in 10 Paintings: A Different Impression
Think Impressionism, and Gustave Caillebotte is not the first name that springs to mind. Yet he helped organize the Impressionist exhibitions, he...
Catriona Miller 9 December 2024
Artist Stories
Carel Fabritius in 10 Paintings: Rembrandt’s Most Promising Pupil
Any biography of Carel Fabritius (Dutch, 1622–1654) is necessarily short; there simply is not much known about him. He was born in Beemster, a...
Tom Anderson 9 December 2024
Frida Kahlo: The Suffering Behind Her Paintings
The image of Frida Kahlo has become very popular in our society: we can find her face or artworks on colorful and bright t-shirts, earrings, cups,...
Arianna Richetti 9 December 2024
The Man, The Myth, The Legend: Thomas Nast’s Santa Claus
Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, Old St. Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Papa Noel, Weihnachtsmann. Whatever your culture is, he is a man of many...
Rachel Witte 6 December 2024
Berthe Morisot: A Modern Parisian Woman
Berthe Morisot was an influential painter at the heart of the French Impressionist movement. Ahead of her time, her work was innovative, fresh, and...
Candy Bedworth 6 December 2024
From Love to Art: Anna Hyatt Huntington, An American Sculptor
A pioneering female sculptor of the 20th century, Anna Hyatt Huntington created artworks that are still visible all over New York City. Here are some...
Alexandra Kiely 5 December 2024
What Inspired Kandinsky? Nature, Spirituality and Other Artists
Wassily Kandinsky – a lawyer turned painter, a painter turned lecturer, a green-fingered man for whom a house with a garden was a curse (as he...
Magda Michalska 4 December 2024
Kandinsky’s Magic World of Fairy Tales
Wassily Kandinsky, a renowned abstract artist, is chiefly associated with Der Blaue Reiter, an international group of avant-garde artists based in...
Magda Michalska 4 December 2024
Documenting the Internment Experience: Miné Okubo and Citizen 13660
Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly placed in concentration camps. Artist Miné Okubo was in two of...
Lauren Kraut 2 December 2024
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Impressive Life of an Impressionist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a leading member of Impressionism, was perhaps the most vibrant painter of color and light in the famous French movement.
Sam Malone 2 December 2024
Gabriel Figueroa: An Incredible Legacy of Mexican Cinema
Celebrated as one of Mexico best cinematographers, Gabriel Figueroa transformed cinema, vividly introducing Mexicos landscapes, faces, and stories to...
Jimena Aullet 2 December 2024
Carlo Crivelli—Enigmatic Renaissance Trickster
We know very little about the life of Carlo Crivelli. The basics of life and death, and little else. We do have a collection of awe-inspiring works,...
Candy Bedworth 25 November 2024
