In George Agnew Reid’s 1889 painting “Dreaming,” the model is his wife, but she’s also an artist. We don’t see the face of the now nearly forgotten painter Mary Hiester Reid as she leans toward a ...

TOLEDO — The Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch won the lottery twice — in 1713 and 1723. Most people will be happy for you if you win the lottery once — even if you’re already quite well off, as Ruysch was.

Renowned in her time, with her paintings in high demand, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) has nonetheless been largely ignored by museums. She has never had a major monographic exhibition, not even in her ...

WASHINGTON -- Old masters didn't limit themselves to painting grave biblical scenes and laughing cavaliers. Some loved doing just fruit and flowers, birds and bees. As the earliest cherry blossoms ...

POTTSVILLE – Mary Beth Harvey sees the world through flowers. “I love the beauty of flowers,” said Harvey, a Pottsville artist who has won acclaim for her watercolor paintings of sunflowers, irises ...

And the blooms? They are so sumptuous you may be tempted to sniff their sweet fragrance. But be discreet: The Dutch artist's stunningly realistic works are, after all, hanging in a museum. What artist ...

She painted Marie Antoinette but survived the Reign of Terror, she was one of just four women ever admitted to France’s Royal Academy (or Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture), and now Anne ...

My painting studio is a small room in the Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, apartment that I share with my husband and our two dogs. When I first moved into this apartment, I was a full-time journalist, ...

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