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Through richly detailed paintings, Wende Caporale-Greene honors the farmers, fishers, cheesemongers, and other food purveyers whose work sustains local communities.

Organized in conjunction with America’s 250th anniversary, "A Nation of Artists" examines how artistic production in the United States has been shaped by creativity, exchange, expansion, conflict, and innovation.

The show includes nearly fifty rarely exhibited works, presenting the depth and breadth of Rembrandt’s etching subjects, including portraits, self-portraits, scenes from daily life, landscapes, narrative scenes, and still lifes. The exhibition also demonstrates his centuries-long impact on ...

As far as we can tell, neither painting was exhibited publicly, yet both are superb examples of 20th-century American social realism.

Edouard Manet was born to an upper-middle-class family, but he was infused with an empathy for beggars and others who had been pushed out of the city as the capital expanded and ...

At first glance, the art and career of Julius LeBlanc Stewart suggest the conventional trope of the privileged American-born artist living abroad, yet a closer look ...

This season, central Tennessee is setting the stage to celebrate American Women Artists through a special museum exhibition and symposium.

Beloved in Nordic countries, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Born in Helsinki, she witnessed civil war and two World Wars as well as the burgeoning of Finland’s national identity following independence from Russian rule in 1917. Her paintings are on view in the U.S. at ...

A native of Wisconsin, equipped only with an 8th-grade education, Farrell taught himself to paint like a virtuoso, ultimately mastering the highly detailed, illusionistic trompe l’oeil technique and making it his own.

This artist's work can be seen not only in Barcelona’s Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, but also in such celebrated film franchises as ...