Art Stories
William Bradford Chartered a Steamer into Arctic Ice with Photographers Aboard, and Queen Victoria Bought the Painting That Came Back
In 1869 American painter William Bradford chartered the sealing steamer Panther and sailed into Greenland ice with two professional photographers aboard. The voyage produced the photographic book The Arctic Regions...
William Bradford Chartered a Steamer into Arctic Ice with Photographers Aboard, and Queen Victoria Bought the Painting That Came Back
In 1869 American painter William Bradford chartered the sealing steamer Panther and sailed into Greenland ice with two professional photographers aboard. The voyage produced the photographic book The Arctic Regions...
Frederic Leighton Was Made a Lord One Day Before He Died, the Shortest Peerage in British History
On 24 January 1896, Frederic Leighton became Baron Leighton of Stretton, the first British artist ever raised to the hereditary peerage. He died the next morning, and the title died...
Frederic Leighton Was Made a Lord One Day Before He Died, the Shortest Peerage in British History
On 24 January 1896, Frederic Leighton became Baron Leighton of Stretton, the first British artist ever raised to the hereditary peerage. He died the next morning, and the title died...
The Rowers Eakins Immortalized Here Competed in the First Pair-Oared Shell Race Ever Held in the United States
In 1872 John and Barney Biglin rowed the first pair-oared shell race ever held in the United States, and Thomas Eakins painted them with an engineer's precision. This article traces...
The Rowers Eakins Immortalized Here Competed in the First Pair-Oared Shell Race Ever Held in the United States
In 1872 John and Barney Biglin rowed the first pair-oared shell race ever held in the United States, and Thomas Eakins painted them with an engineer's precision. This article traces...
Bingham Painted a Crowd Awaiting Election Results After a Contested Count Stripped Him of His Own Seat in the Missouri Legislature
In 1846 George Caleb Bingham won a Missouri legislative seat by three votes, then lost it to a contested count. Between 1852 and 1855 he answered with the Election Series,...
Bingham Painted a Crowd Awaiting Election Results After a Contested Count Stripped Him of His Own Seat in the Missouri Legislature
In 1846 George Caleb Bingham won a Missouri legislative seat by three votes, then lost it to a contested count. Between 1852 and 1855 he answered with the Election Series,...
The Woman Behind These Stage Maquettes Also Designed the Martian Costumes for Aelita, the Soviet Union's First Science Fiction Feature Film
Alexandra Exter built radical stage maquettes for Moscow's Kamerny Theatre, then dressed the Martians in Aelita (1924), the Soviet Union's first science fiction feature film. This article follows her from...
The Woman Behind These Stage Maquettes Also Designed the Martian Costumes for Aelita, the Soviet Union's First Science Fiction Feature Film
Alexandra Exter built radical stage maquettes for Moscow's Kamerny Theatre, then dressed the Martians in Aelita (1924), the Soviet Union's first science fiction feature film. This article follows her from...
Sarah Bernhardt Really Bought an Old Military Fort on a Breton Island, and Her Devoted Painter Clairin Followed Her There Summer After Summer
In 1894 Sarah Bernhardt purchased a decommissioned military fortin at the Pointe des Poulains on Belle-Île-en-Mer. Georges Clairin, her portraitist and friend for fifty years, returned there with her nearly...
Sarah Bernhardt Really Bought an Old Military Fort on a Breton Island, and Her Devoted Painter Clairin Followed Her There Summer After Summer
In 1894 Sarah Bernhardt purchased a decommissioned military fortin at the Pointe des Poulains on Belle-Île-en-Mer. Georges Clairin, her portraitist and friend for fifty years, returned there with her nearly...