What does it mean to paint a bowl of fruit in 2026? For Kerry Bickford, associate curator at the Brandywine Museum of Art, the question is less quaint than it sounds. It’s one she has given a lot of ...

Drawing on the rich history of still-life painting, a new exhibit at the Brandywine Museum of Art examines ideas of wealth, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The earliest recorded still life paintings date back more than two millennia and are referred to as Xenia, a Greek word meaning a specific kind of generous hospitality extended ...

Artist Poppy Jones is experiencing a surge of interest for her eerie and almost surreal paintings that hover between object ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eric Rimmington in 2005: he preferred the uncertainty of an image that ‘isn’t easily decipherable’ - Rod Shone Eric Rimmington, ...

Sotheby’s London is offering what is believed to be the only known self-portrait by Clara Peeters (ca. 1589–ca. 1657), the famed Flemish still life painter. A presumed self-portrait with a lavish ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In terms of public reception in his day, he might have done better to paint even more still lifes. In terms of ...

“You’re not allowed to lick paintings in museums, which is cruel when you’re faced with something as mouthwateringly tempting as Wayne Thiebaud’s art,” said Eddy Frankel in The Guardian. The American ...

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still life genre Sharon Core, "Boston Cremes," from the series "Thiebauds," 2004. C ...

From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass. Credit: Richard Byrnes and Jeanne FonesCredit ...