Art Stories
Turner Painted Alnwick Castle Under Moonlight More Than 150 Years Before the Castle Became Hogwarts on Film
Around 1829 J. M. W. Turner painted Alnwick Castle by moonlight for his England and Wales series. In 2000 the same Northumberland fortress became Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the...
Turner Painted Alnwick Castle Under Moonlight More Than 150 Years Before the Castle Became Hogwarts on Film
Around 1829 J. M. W. Turner painted Alnwick Castle by moonlight for his England and Wales series. In 2000 the same Northumberland fortress became Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the...
Edward Wadsworth Spent the First World War Supervising Dazzle Camouflage on British Warships, Not Painting Still Lifes
Edward Wadsworth, a founding Vorticist, spent the First World War transferring dazzle camouflage designs onto Royal Navy warships in the Liverpool docks. His 1919 painting Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool...
Edward Wadsworth Spent the First World War Supervising Dazzle Camouflage on British Warships, Not Painting Still Lifes
Edward Wadsworth, a founding Vorticist, spent the First World War transferring dazzle camouflage designs onto Royal Navy warships in the Liverpool docks. His 1919 painting Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool...
Édouard Vuillard Painted His Wallpapered Rooms in the Apartment He Shared With His Dressmaker Mother Until He Was 60
Édouard Vuillard lived with his mother, the dressmaker Marie Vuillard, until her death in 1928, the year he turned 60. Her Paris workrooms and papered walls became the core subject...
Édouard Vuillard Painted His Wallpapered Rooms in the Apartment He Shared With His Dressmaker Mother Until He Was 60
Édouard Vuillard lived with his mother, the dressmaker Marie Vuillard, until her death in 1928, the year he turned 60. Her Paris workrooms and papered walls became the core subject...
The Painter of This Gentle Landscape Was Accused of Forging Van Goghs, Including a Disputed Version of the Sunflowers
Claude-Émile Schuffenecker, friend of Gauguin and one of the first collectors of Van Gogh, painted quiet landscapes like his 1891 Landscape with Figure and Houses. Decades after his death he...
The Painter of This Gentle Landscape Was Accused of Forging Van Goghs, Including a Disputed Version of the Sunflowers
Claude-Émile Schuffenecker, friend of Gauguin and one of the first collectors of Van Gogh, painted quiet landscapes like his 1891 Landscape with Figure and Houses. Decades after his death he...
El Greco Spent Nearly Four Decades in Spain but Signed His Canvases in Greek Letters With His Real Name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos
From 1577 until his death in Toledo in 1614, El Greco signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full birth name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, often adding the word for Cretan....
El Greco Spent Nearly Four Decades in Spain but Signed His Canvases in Greek Letters With His Real Name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos
From 1577 until his death in Toledo in 1614, El Greco signed his paintings in Greek letters with his full birth name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, often adding the word for Cretan....
Max Beckmann Heard Hitler Denounce Modern Art on the Radio and Left Germany the Very Next Day, Never to Return
On July 18, 1937, Hitler gave a radio address in Munich condemning modern art. Max Beckmann, Germany's most honored modern painter a decade earlier, packed and left for Amsterdam the...
Max Beckmann Heard Hitler Denounce Modern Art on the Radio and Left Germany the Very Next Day, Never to Return
On July 18, 1937, Hitler gave a radio address in Munich condemning modern art. Max Beckmann, Germany's most honored modern painter a decade earlier, packed and left for Amsterdam the...