Painting of the Week: Józef Simmler, The Death of Barbara Radziwiłł
The National Museum in Warsaw is one of the largest museums in Poland and boasts an extensive art collection. Among its body of works is The Death of...
James W Singer 2 August 2020
Masterpiece Stories
Painting of the Week: Henri Rousseau, The Football Players
Welcome to the bizarre world of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), the quintessential naïve artist, and meet his oneiric, striped football...
Anastasia Manioudaki 26 July 2020
Painting of the Week: Thomas Gainsborough, Grace Dalrymple Elliott
The Frick Collection has an amazing ensemble of European masters. For example, works by Vermeer, Fragonard, and Goya grace its walls. Every room has...
James W Singer 19 July 2020
Masterpiece Story: Artist’s Studio – The Dance by Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a famous American Pop artist, most well known for his original technique of mixed media on canvas, which was meant to remind the...
Magda Michalska 12 July 2020
Painting of the Week: Thomas Lawrence, Julia, Lady Peel
When I saw the portrait of Julia, Lady Peel by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the Frick Collection, I was intrigued by the artwork. There is a...
Marina Kochetkova 5 July 2020
Masterpiece Story: Hendrik Heerschop, The African King Caspar
White subjects have dominated the Western art tradition for millennia, while people of color have been vastly underrepresented and misrepresented.
James W Singer 28 June 2020
Painting of the Week: Jean-Léon Gérôme, Truth Coming Out of Her Well
A fair-skinned woman, nude. Mouth open in either shock, rage, or maybe even disgust, as she emerges from a well. One leg is already draped over the...
Kristin Urban 21 June 2020
Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus
Kara Elizabeth Walker (1969 - ) is an American contemporary artist. She is known as a painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and...
Isla Phillips 19 June 2020
Masterpiece Story: Abbey in the Oakwood by Caspar David Friedrich
Sadness and desolation fill this scene like an oppressive melancholy. The sun is dying behind the horizon as fog enshrouds the ground. Skeletal trees...
James W Singer 14 June 2020
Masterpiece Story: Caravaggio, Amor Vincit Omnia
This young Cupid, recklessly painted by Caravaggio, follows Virgil’s saying amor vincit omnia (love conquers all). He triumphs over science,...
Zuzanna Stańska 7 June 2020
Painting of the Week: Robert Delaunay, The Red Tower
When people speak of Paris, images of Notre-Dame, Arc de Triomphe, and Musée du Louvre flash into the imagination. And for good reason, as they are...
James W Singer 31 May 2020
Painting of the Week: Kikukawa Eizan, The Courtesan Hinaaya of the Chōji House
Vincent and Theo van Gogh, the close-knit brothers, extensively collected Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. Van Gogh had already bought a few in Antwerp...
Urvi Chheda 24 May 2020
