The majority of Hamblin's known works are portraits of children. This was no doubt more attractively priced than portraits of adults, and, there was a certain formula that itinerant painters such as H ...
Read ArticleWilliam Bradford was part of the first generation of a home-grown landscape painting school, which evolved out of the Hudson River School development in the Northeast. His specialty was maritime scene ...
Read ArticleForming his aesthetic during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Cy Twombly pioneered his own unique brand of modernism. Rather than emphasizing process, he was inspired by art history past, particu ...
Read ArticleIn 1986, President Reagan established National Garden Week, which was first celebrated in 1987 from 12 through 16 April. In 2002 the National Gardening Association insisted that the entire month of Ap ...
Read ArticleKenneth Noland was part of the Post Painterly Abstraction group of Color Field artists who sought to distance themselves from the gestural painting of Abstract Expressionism. His epiphany moment came, ...
Read ArticleEstablished in 1958, National Library Week has been sponsored by the American Library Association. It now has international recognition. National Library Week was started to encourage the support and ...
Read ArticleOne could call painter George Inness a “nature worshipper” because he was part of the Swedenborgian movement. One of the tenets of their faith was the fervent belief in seeing the supreme ...
Read ArticleIn England’s American colonies, it was natural for colonial artists who were eager for a vital school of painting of their own to look to British art for inspiration. By the time of the American ...
Read ArticleWhat better way to celebrate the beginning of April than to see COLOR. Kenneth Noland’s (1924–2010) painting named for this month makes me think of blue skies with a bright sun and the sme ...
Read ArticleSince Monday was Patriots Day, as well as the running of the Boston Marathon, I’m celebrating this week—in an art historical way, of course—with one of my favorite colonial portrait ...
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