Ariadne Asleep on the Isle of Naxos

~~“How I Paint,” Horace Pippin’s first and fullest description of his process, began casting a long shadow almost as soon as excerpts of it appeared in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Masters of Popular Painting: Modern...

John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...

~~John Vanderlyn had the world ahead of him. It was the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the young American who was living in Paris had already won acclaim for two powerful history paintings that had proven him to be not only up-to-date in his pictorial aesthetics but also strikingly political.