Mary Blair: The Modern Artist Behind Walt Disney’s Magic
Inside the 2022 Wallace Collection’s magical exhibition, Inspiring Walt Disney, was an entire wall of intricate, hand-drawn illustrations from the...
Guest Author 16 May 2025
Women Artists
Mastering Details: Heads and Hands in Käthe Kollwitz’s Art
The focus of Käthe Kollwitz’s art is the human being. Above all, a compassionate, humane outlook is characteristic of her approach. She was mainly...
Petra Dragasevic 16 May 2025
Pritika Chowdhry: Evoking the History of the Indian Partition
The narrative of the Indian partition lingers in the secluded corners of memory and experience. The partition of India and Pakistan, and later...
Urvi Chheda 12 May 2025
Painting Parenthood—7 Children Depicted by Their Famous Mothers
Is it possible to combine art and motherhood? This question never seems to go away. There is no denying that female artists do have a gendered...
Candy Bedworth 9 May 2025
Mela Muter—Accomplished Portraitist and Devoted Mother
Although in her day she was most famous for portraying the members of the Parisian Boheme, Mela Muter was deeply fascinated with capturing the...
Magda Michalska 9 May 2025
Exploring the Collographs of Belkis Ayón, Cuban Master of Printmaking
Belkis Ayón's transgressive art explored a secret all-male religion called the Abakuá in Cuba. She died tragically aged just 32, leaving behind some of the finest print-making of the 20th century.
Candy Bedworth 8 May 2025
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Pioneering Expressionist
Some time ago, I came across a fascinating German Expressionist who was not part of the famous Die Brücke group. All the more, this painter was a...
Magda Michalska 6 May 2025
Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum
Amy Sherald (b. 1973) has identified herself as “an American realist painter painting American people.” The current retrospective of her work...
Tom Anderson 5 May 2025
The Abstract Glaciers of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s life-long obsession with glaciers is catalogued in a new book edited by Rob Airey. Biography, geology, ecology, and...
Catriona Miller 1 May 2025
Ethel Reed—When a Meteor Crossed the Night Sky of Art Nouveau
If you’ve heard of Ethel Reed, you are probably either a devotee of late-19th-century American poster art or an art history student. After the...
Wen Gu 1 May 2025
Art Nouveau’s Unsung Female Artists
Art Nouveau, the movement that flourished between 1890 and 1910, developed at the apex of Belle Époque, the period which encouraged modernity and...
Anastasia Tsaleza 1 May 2025
Giovanna Garzoni: A Life of a Still-life Expert
Giovanna Garzoni excelled in the male-dominated field of painting in the 1600s. She was renowned for her naturalistic still-life paintings, botanical...
Guest Author 28 April 2025
