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 ...

Alexander Marshal — this country’s first major botanical painter — deserves to be better known, writes Tiffany Daneff, after ...

Maybe the word most associated with Georgia O’Keeffe is “vagina,” but it could just as easily be “cash.” Sold in 2014 for $44.4 million, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” holds the record for the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Learn how to paint botanical watercolor flowers using an award winning artist s 6 stage technique in this workbook featuring 6 step by step projects Award winning floral artist Anna Mason shares her ...

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