Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings.

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

A provocative new exhibit opening Sunday at the Baltimore Museum of Art is asking whether the chemical-riddled haze that blanketed London and Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed to the ...

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...