John Ruskin, who died in 1900, was an English art critic and philanthropist who also wrote on a wide range of subjects. He said, “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, ...

New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads ...

Early experiments in spirit-guided and automatic art contributed to the rise of abstract and visionary movements ...

The July 29 Bonhams sale of American Art was led by strong prices for works across all genres and the top lot was John Koch’s “Siesta,” painted in 1962, which realized $596,075.

In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many ...

When the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin stated that a “noble style” would apply to both house and church, he protested the British tendency to reserve the Gothic for their cathedrals and ...

“In selecting our laureate, Elton John, we chose to honour someone who has great artistic accomplishments but whose life and whose art has been translated into something much greater than just ...

John Baldessari was born in National City, California, in 1931. He received a BA (1953) and MA (1957) from San Diego State College, continuing his studies at Otis Art Institute (1957–59) and Chouinard ...

And this paradoxical quality extends into his art in spades. For all his compulsion to elicit a public reaction from just about everything he did, Hugo never exhibited his drawings, barely ...

In the virtuosic hand of American realist artist John Moore, it can. Especially if you begin with a close-up view, engage with the rough pointillistic texture of his charcoal drawings, then move away ...

35.6 x 30.5 cm. (14 x 12 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

It was named for Washington Post sports writer John Feinstein, and it was the place he was assigned to sit whenever he came to cover the Hoosiers. This was not a place of honor. It was a ...