In the small Quaker town of Springfield, Pennsylvania, John West and Sarah Pearson welcomed Benjamin West (1738–1820) into the world. He was the 10th and last of John’s children from two marriages.

Moran’s reverent approach to landscape painting had a long-term impact on America, its art, and its land. He was best known as the first painter to capture the sublime in the canyons, geysers, and hot ...

Nearly a decade after his death, the estate of Cuban American artist Rafael Soriano (1920–2015) is releasing a comprehensive digital catalogue raisonné of his work, from his hard-edged geometric ...

Season 4 of “Articulated” chronicles the lives and work of ceramicist and textile artist Anita Fields (Osage), muralist Leo Tanguma, painter and photographer Lenore Chinn, and painter Pat Steir as ...

The Indian Space Painters were not Indians. They were a short-lived group of white painters working in New York in the late 1940s. They were, however, influenced by Native American cultural heritage ...

Thomas Kinkade once presided over an empire of radiantly unrealistic imagery, but his popular oeuvre reflected only a fraction of the man's identity, as Miranda Yousef's documentary reveals. In the ...

Pancakes. Burgers. Sundaes. Display cases of pies oozing filling and tiered cakes topped with cherries. Plates of food ready to eat. The feasts look scrumptious, but the cakes are iced with thick ...

Mary Cassatt Gave Women a Place in the Impressionist Movement Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art. Discover how she ...

History, we’re told, is written by the victors. It is also shaped by the evidence that survives. For that reason, the loss of an artist’s works may consign his story, or hers, to the margins. But from ...