In the 1950s, the St Ives boys had the world intrigued. New work by the generation of artists that followed Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth – Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost – was so hot that the already established Mark Rothko came over from New York to exchange ideas.
Frost – who learnt to paint [...]
A 17th-century El Greco painting that recently was purchased by a foundation set up under the will of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis went on display at the National Art Gallery in Athens on Wednesday.
“The Coronation of the Virgin” was bought for an undisclosed sum this summer by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, said [...]
Working a graveyard shift, David Van Derveer sleeps only a few hours so he can have the day and the light to paint.
Van Derveer, who works in maintenance at the Stater Bros. East Highlands store in Highland, painted a portrait of his manager, Armando Negrete, which hangs in the store’s office.
Negrete mentioned Van Derveer’s talent [...]
