Over 1,500 oil paintings from public collections in Hertfordshire are presented for the first time in a stunning new catalogue published by The Public Catalogue Foundation today. This is the 21st volume in The Public Catalogue Foundation’s acclaimed series of photographic catalogues recording all publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK. A further 70 catalogues in [...]
A painting by Neosho, Mo., native Thomas Hart Benton is the latest acquisition announced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Museum founder Alice Walton made the announcement Wednesday night at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., at an annual business event. Ploughing It Under, which 1 1 measures 20 / 8 [...]
The media are richly varied.
Among them are acrylics and watercolors, oil paintings and pencil illustrations, experimental and traditional photographic prints, computer-generated works and sculpture constructed of metal and other things.
“There are many different kinds of art,” says Christopher Varner, 20, of Pittsburgh, “but they all have one thing in common — creativity and passion.”
The student [...]
A $60 million painting by Kazimir Malevich. A $40 million self-portrait by Francis Bacon. It hardly seems the ideal moment to be selling such pricey art. As Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury brace for their big fall auctions in New York, starting with a sale of 71 Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings and sculptures [...]
No one wants to nail nails on a new wall and make a lot of nail holes. So how to do if want to use painting or pictures to decorate wall? Maybe you can choose the following methods:
1. If the frame or picture frame is not so heavy, we can use a kind of two-sided [...]
MONTGOMERY, N.Y. – Vibrant colors and powerful design characterize the work of emerging artists Carrie Jacobson and George W. Hayes, whose paintings will be on exhibit at the Wallkill River School gallery in November.
“A Confession of Color” – the first major exhibit for both painters – opens Nov. 1. The public is invited to meet [...]
Kaminski Auctions’ fall fine art and estates auction September 20–21 was a success with many items selling above estimate. The under-the-tent auction featured fine art, antiques and collectibles from estates in Massachusetts and beyond. Represented artists included John White Alexander, Emile Gruppe and William Morgan.
Headlining the sale was an important painting by American artist John [...]
What price vanity? A lot. I have two questions about commissioning someone to paint your official portrait like Washington politicians do.
1. Where would you put it?
2. Who would want it in the first place?
Taxpayers are footing the bills for everyone from presidential appointees to cabinet secretaries to go out in style with an official portrait [...]
“Madonna of the Goldfinch,” a 500-year-old painting by the Renaissance master Raphael (1483-1520), will go on display next month after a decade-long restoration in a lab in Italy, the BBC reported. The 1506 “Madonna,” an oil on wood measuring about 42 by 30 inches, shows the Virgin Mary with two children — Jesus and John [...]
The great Argentine painter Fabian Perez was born on November 2, 1967 in Campana (Buenos Aires). Since teenager Fabian combined his love of painting with his taste for the Martial Arts. Karate influenced much in his character, giving the security that today is reflected in each of his brushstrokes, giving their works a balance of [...]
