The Elmhurst History Museum will this week unveil a 160-year old portrait with remarkable historic significance for Elmhurst, in part because of its subject but also because of the reputation of the ...

For centuries portrait painting has emphasized the sitter’s splendor and status, but Yeo preferred an expressionistic touch as the uniform’s warm crimson tones bleed out, shrouding every inch of the ...

Much of our understanding of history comes from written accounts, but it is art and photography (and notably portraits) that really brings these people and events to life. Take the 18th-century ...

Orlando Museum of Art is hosting a visiting exhibition that paints a portrait of America in the figurative sense and presents a lot of portraits of Americans in the literal sense. The museum is the ...

Bailly’s Vanitas Still life with Portrait of a Young Painter “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. /What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under ...

Attributed to C.R. Parker, "Portrait of Frederick" (c. 1840) (courtesy the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art) For decades, the truth about Frederick Baker’s life ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The longer you look at graphic designer Dave McClinton’s art, the more details you’ll notice, from unique textures to historical references. It all stems from the artist’s ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the second-most expensive ...