A love of art and dreams of a life beyond that of his sharecropper parents allowed Benny Andrews to escape the poverty and social injustices of the rural south and become a groundbreaking visual artis
Readers have likely drawn pictures of themselves and their friends. If so, they’ve drawn self-portraits and portraits. Rembrandt was a Dutch painter and etcher famous for his dramatic portraits and se
Camille Pissarro’s work is featured in famous museums around the world. He was known not only for his unique style—including the way he applied paint—but also for his encouraging manner toward fellow
Sir Anthony van Dyck was known for his paintings of some of the most important people in 17th century England, including King Charles I and his family. Van Dyck was sent to school to learn to be a pai
J.M.W. Turner started making money for his art when he was just 12 years old! This famous British artist was known for many things, including his landscapes, watercolors, and prints. However, he’s bes
Paul Gauguin’s paintings weren’t appreciated until after his death, but now he’s known as one of the fathers of modern art. Readers learn what made Gauguin’s work unique through informative text about
Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (194854) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (18401926). Visits to the remot
In Zen Buddhism, the concept of freedom is of profound importance. And yet, until now there has been no in-depth study of the manifestation of this liberated attitude in the lives and artwork of Edo p
The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such, scholars will welcome this collection of essays by interna
In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best arti
"John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) is one of the best-known yet least understood British Orientalist painters of the 19th century. His numerous, highly detailed Orientalist images stand in dramatic con
San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From North Beach, to Chinatown, to the cold, rough surf of Ocean Beach, to Marin, both visitors and lifelong residents have endless opportun
"In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated
Korean painters participated in two major cultural trends of the late Choson period in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: inquiry into things Korean and investigation of things Western. Departin
Robert Delaunay was one of the leading artists working in Paris in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his paintings have been admired ever since as among the earliest purely abstract work
Manet Paints Monet focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet (1832?1883) and Claude Monet (1840?1926), two outstanding painters of the nascent Impress
"Donated to the museum in 1925, the Yale University Art Gallery's Education of the Virgin-depicting Saint Anne teaching a young Virgin Mary to read-was long considered to be a work by an unknown Spani
