Is Grant Wood’s famous painting "American Gothic" a celebration of Midwestern perseverance, or a mockery of a culture stuck ...

Haddon “Sunny” Sundblom took a commission from Coca-Cola and turned Santa into a 33-year gig and a key part of his art legacy ...

A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the ...

Attorney and art historian David Lenefsky discusses the history of the American artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton ...

The city, spread across a series of islands, has many exceptional galleries and museums (though sadly, no Guggenheim).

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the ...

The present-day perfume industry is commercialized beyond any measure, presenting scents for every occasion through endless ...

Helen LaFrance was a self-taught folk artist primarily focused on memory paintings—vivid depictions drawn from her ...

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned ...

Gil Elvgren was an American artist born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. He became one of the most famous pin-up and glamour artists of all time, known for his iconic images of the all-American ...

This past summer, the artist returned to Ukraine for the first time in more than three decades and reconnected with a depleted-yet-hungry art scene.

Art, of course, is complicit in the development of American exceptionalism ... had been present here for millennia, but paintings like these made Bierstadt famous in the rapt eastern colonies.