In George Agnew Reid’s 1889 painting “Dreaming,” the model is his wife, but she’s also an artist. We don’t see the face of the now nearly forgotten painter Mary Hiester Reid as she leans toward a ...

TOLEDO — The Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch won the lottery twice — in 1713 and 1723. Most people will be happy for you if you win the lottery once — even if you’re already quite well off, as Ruysch was.

Renowned in her time, with her paintings in high demand, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) has nonetheless been largely ignored by museums. She has never had a major monographic exhibition, not even in her ...

Cloudy skylines and vivid floral bouquets, still-lifes and landscapes, nasturtiums and petunias lording it over Manhattan’s imposing cityscape, the rectilinear Cloudy skylines and vivid floral ...

Oakland artist Kevin Woodson was 2 when his parents took him out into the family's garden to play. He remembers standing among the zinnias - ball-shaped, brightly colored flowers that stood a little ...

Maybe the word most associated with Georgia O’Keeffe is “vagina,” but it could just as easily be “cash.” Sold in 2014 for $44.4 million, “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1” holds the record for the ...

Elsie de Leon began painting in 1975. Her husband, Carlos de Leon Campos, is an established and talented painter, and he urged her for many years to take up art. "I kept telling him, 'when (the ...

Painter Shirley Nan Ruchong is the featured artist at the Trinidad Art Gallery for the last Trinidad Art Walk of 2015, to take place tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. Ruchong’s high-contrast flowers and her ...

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