Masterpiece Story: Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she became friends with Edgar Degas...
Zuzanna Stańska 11 October 2026
#19th Century
Rebecca Solomon: Success and Prejudice in the Victorian World
Rebecca Solomon was a Jewish woman who overcame contemporary prejudices to become a successful artist in mid-Victorian London. In 2022, Princeton...
Catriona Miller 9 October 2026
Welcome Autumn with Jasper Cropsey’s Colorful Landscape Paintings
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) was an American artist of the Hudson River School movement. He is often called “The Painter of Autumn”...
Alexandra Kiely 8 October 2026
Józef Chełmoński in 10 Paintings: Capturing the Spirit of Rural Life
Józef Chełmoński masterfully portrayed life in the Polish countryside. His paintings reveal a subtle connection between human and nature,...
Kinga Dobosz 8 October 2026
Olga Wisinger-Florian: The Queen of Flower Paintings from Vienna’s Golden Age
For a long time the memory of Viennese flower painter Olga Wisinger-Florian slumbered underneath a duvet of withered petals. Who knew that it was she...
Kero Fichter 7 October 2026
Paint Me Like One of Your French Girls: The Life and Business of Agostina Segatori
Agostina Segatori’s face is most widely recognized in the works of famous artists between 1860 and 1887. Her Italian features inspired many...
Yasmin Ozkan 7 October 2026
Julie Manet—Who Was This Pretty Girl Immortalized by the Impressionists?
Julie Manet—called the beauty of Impressionism—was the daughter of the wealthy, well-connected painter Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, brother...
Pola Otterstein 7 October 2026
The Dazzling Davies Sisters and Their Impressionist Art Collection
The Davies sisters grew up in a remote corner of Victorian Wales. They were religious, teetotal and never married. But these demure young women, with...
Candy Bedworth 7 October 2026
Masterpiece Story: Niagara by Frederic Edwin Church
At a time when American newspapers flourished and new dailies popped up like weeds, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) invited reporters to his...
Theodore Carter 6 October 2026
Masterpiece Story: Summer Night by Kitty Kielland
Kitty Kielland is one of the many talented female artists that have been erased from modern social consciousness. She was a brilliant painter of...
James W Singer 6 October 2026
Down by the River: Famous Rivers in 10 Paintings
From the dawn of civilization, rivers have been the crux of human life. Most great cities are built around rivers. We use them for sustenance,...
Anastasia Manioudaki 6 October 2026
The Extreme North of Peder Balke
Norwegian painter Peder Balke (1804–1887) is an unjustly unknown name, obscure to most outside of Scandinavia. Classed as a Romantic painter,...
Edoardo Cesarino 1 October 2026
