In "A Midsummer Afternoon Dream" (detail view), artist Amy Sherald uses a grayscale rendering to portray a woman of color, a bold move away from verisimilitude that highlights the personhood of the ...

Women in art, both as a compositional motif and as creators, is an expansive field in the history of art. Societal and cultural perceptions of women often shape their representation—from objects of ...

At the turn of the century, Australian women artists travelled to Europe and returned with new styles and techniques. Their ...

The Norton Museum of Art’s 2025-26 season will feature Dutch art, works by women artists and the return of popular events. A ...

In a new publication, “Inventing the Modern,” and a companion exhibition, 14 women who shaped the institution come into definition themselves. By Hilarie M. Sheets This article is part of the Fine ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz - Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...

Because it's so easy on the eyes and served up in a nicely digestible serving size, you might be tempted to breeze right through the new paintings survey at Milwaukee Art Museum. But, '50 Paintings,' ...

DENVER — Perhaps the most iconic photograph of the Great Depression wouldn’t have been produced if it weren’t for a gut instinct that Dorothea Lange turn back to a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo, ...

Historically, the subjects of Mary Cassatt’s Impressionist paintings—women and children who sit in gardens, lounge in armchairs and come together for afternoon tea—have sometimes been viewed as ...