Art related

As I watched a FB reel1 about the life of French sculptor, Camille Claudel, I teared up. Hers is a tragic story. Claudel’s genius threatened the most powerful men of that time. Authors Assia Petricelli and Sergio Riccardi,…

Raphael at 17 Raphael at 37 This is Raphael's Mary Magdalene at a later moment in her life. Oil on wood 1503 < 15 x 5 in.A side panel of…

Paul Cézanne (1839 –1906) was a French Post Impressionist painter whose work introduced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism. …

When Sara Galner first joined the Saturday Evening Girls Club, she had no idea she’d end up making pottery that sold for thousands of dollars to the rich and famous.…

Born into the aristocracy in the south of France, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa was the firstborn child of eccentric Count Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa. After the death of his brother, Toulouse-Lautrec's parents…

When the second Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris in the spring of 1876, one sharp-tongued critic described its participants as "five or six lunatics, one of which is a woman." 1…

Thank you, Cleveland Museum of Art, for the hours and hours of respite in your spaces. Cleveland friends: You know the Georges Seurat painting,Sunday in the Park with George, that is…

Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ MacNicol (1869 - 1904) was a Scottish painter from Glasgow, a teacher’s daughter. She has been compared to French impressionist, Berthe Morisot.Fortunately for Bessie, women were able to flourish in Glasgow during…

I use this Diego Velazquez painting, humorously, in the first few pages of my book, However, the painting has had a tumultuous past. What is it about this Velazquez nude…

I first heard of Barbara Shermund on CBS Sunday Morning and decided to dig a little deeper. Barbara Shermund, Self-portrait with red head scarf  1935 Barbara Shermund (1899-1978) was an American cartoonist.…