The Elmhurst History Museum will this week unveil a 160-year old portrait with remarkable historic significance for Elmhurst, in part because of its subject but also because of the reputation of the ...

For centuries portrait painting has emphasized the sitter’s splendor and status, but Yeo preferred an expressionistic touch as the uniform’s warm crimson tones bleed out, shrouding every inch of the ...

Much of our understanding of history comes from written accounts, but it is art and photography (and notably portraits) that really brings these people and events to life. Take the 18th-century ...

Orlando Museum of Art is hosting a visiting exhibition that paints a portrait of America in the figurative sense and presents a lot of portraits of Americans in the literal sense. The museum is the ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

Bailly’s Vanitas Still life with Portrait of a Young Painter “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. /What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under ...

Attributed to C.R. Parker, "Portrait of Frederick" (c. 1840) (courtesy the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art) For decades, the truth about Frederick Baker’s life ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. History plays a strong role in many visual art exhibitions this fall. The St. Louis Art Museum marks Missouri’s 200th anniversary ...