Clementine Hunter: Painting Black Life from Memory
Clementine Hunter taught herself to paint in her fifities and spent the rest of her life chronicling the Black Southern experience, not with slogans...
Wen Gu 19 June 2026
Bondage and Freedom—The Protest Art of Two Abolitionists
Since the elites in power like the status quo, social reform is a grassroots movement. How do reformers engage the masses? With art. Should protest...
Helen Jeffery 19 June 2026
13 Black Folk Artists from the American South
The thirteen self-taught artists below, from Bill Traylor to Nellie Mae Rowe, Thornton Dial to Mary T. Smith, among others, created some of the most...
Adam Oestreich 19 June 2026
Enslaved Black Models in European Art: Anonymous Objects?
Portraits of Black people are rare in European art history. Let’s be clear: they were there, in society, but they rarely made it into art, except...
Candy Bedworth 19 June 2026
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Harriet Powers: A Black Female Folk Artist Who Regained Her Glory
For much of the 20th century, the work of Harriet Powers, an enslaved and later emancipated Black folk artist, was erased from the art historical...
Kristin Urban 19 June 2026
Masterpiece Story: Madame X by John Singer Sargent
Dear John Singer Sargent, the world has changed substantially since the year 1856 when you were born, however, your legacy has stood enduringly. You...
James W Singer 18 June 2026
Fashion Is Art: 13 Beautiful Dresses in Art History
“Who Wore What” has fascinated artists for centuries because few things convey status, identity, and history as effectively as fashion.
MJ Rivera 18 June 2026
12 Famous Self-Portraits You Should Know
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Self-portraits are closely tied to the existence of mirrors. Although mirrors have...
Anastasia Manioudaki 21 January 2026
The Saddest Paintings in Art History
Of the broad spectrum of human emotions, sadness is the one that has been a common underlying element of many famous artworks to date. The...
Sam Malone 8 June 2026
J. M. W. Turner in 10 Paintings
If one wanted to impress their friends at dinner with facts about the highly unique painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, I would point them to...
Coleman Richards 10 June 2026
Too Much Love Will Kill You—The Death of Raphael
Raphael Sanzio, one of the greatest Renaissance painters, died on Good Friday in 1520. He was only 37 years old and at the peak of his artistic...
Zuzanna Stańska 6 April 2026
Life and Art of José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1850–1899) was a popular Brazilian artist from the late 19th century. His commendable paintings paved the...
Maya M. Tola 22 May 2025
Top 10 Strange and Bizarre Paintings
For every picturesque painting, there is at least one strange and bizarre counterpart. We usually gloss over the oddities, because, well, they’re...
Abreeza Thomas 10 November 2025
Marsden Hartley: An Overlooked Modernist
Marsden Hartley was a ground-breaking modernist, ostracized from the art world at the height of his career. Today he remains sidelined as a...
Louisa Mahoney 7 August 2025
Miyatake Gaikotsu and His Puzzling Postcards
At the beginning of the 20th century, when Japan started embracing the West and rapid industrialization of almost all aspects of life, Miyatake...
Magda Michalska 14 April 2026
A Search for Solace at Innisfree Gardens
Art itself is often closely associated with some form of solace or peace. Though not all art exists to establish in oneself an inner tranquility,...
Alina Manevskaya 24 July 2023
10 Rembrandt Etchings You Need to See This Summer in Amsterdam
In Rembrandt’s prints, you can see the whole of life passing you by, from the cradle to the grave. Every stage of life held something...
Guest Author 12 June 2026
Rosa Bonheur in 10 Paintings
Rosa Bonheur’s paintings are some of the most acclaimed depictions of animals in Western art history, making her one of the most important...
Jimena Escoto 20 November 2025
Pieter Bruegel’s Children’s Games Explained
Children’s Games is one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s most famous paintings. Just like in other works of his, it is debatable whether it was just...
Irina Diana Calu 8 June 2026
