As tempting as it may be, you can’t touch a painting in a museum. And now that many museums are closed, you’re even further from seeing the close-up detail in brush strokes that can tell you so much ...
Chicago — It’s Friday morning at the Art Institute of Chicago’s most popular gallery. A white-haired docent stationed in front of Georges Seurat’s masterpiece, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884,” ...
In a letter, Mary Cassatt describes working on Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878) with Edward Degas. An X-ray of the painting reveals brush strokes unlike Cassatt's regular strokes. In her novel I ...
A Northern Ireland museum has secured the first French impressionist painting in a public collection in the region. The rare landscape by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), L’Allee Au Bois, has been ...