The most cloying American artist of the 20th century was almost certainly Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012), whose popular paintings depicted what seemed to be well-lighted houses for elves. His work, as ...

CJ Cook’s richly illustrated study explores the life of a travelling painter who captured island cultures with empathy, ...

Using this dual narrative to draw parallels between two eras of rapid technological advancement and socio-political turbulence, Oscar Zarate's long-awaited new graphic novel Thomas Girtin: The ...

Chances are that you have never heard of the "Christy Girl" or its creator, Howard Chandler Christy. However, Christy was the most famous painter of the Jazz Age. He knew presidents from Teddy ...

The painter Winslow Homer was a man of few words. He kept no journals. He burned most of his correspondence. He also never married, ensuring that no heirs would survive to recount the details of his ...

Florine Stettheimer’s Asbury Park South, 1920. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago Press / Collection of Halley K. Harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York, New York) Some biographies not only ...

Paul Fisher, professor of American studies at Wellesley College, begins his full-scale biography, "The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World," with a confession that Sargent, a great American ...

Simon & Schuster will publish a major new biography this fall spotlighting the life and work of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony-, Grammy-, and Pulitzer Prize–winning creator of Hamilton and In the ...

The 2025 record price for Graham Painter was for Graham Painter (1947-2007) The 2024 record price for Graham Painter was for Coral Reef The 2023 record price for Graham Painter was for Walberswick ...