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Grant Wood, Stone City, 1930 © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY via artnet

Louisa Penrose

8 Lesser-Known Grant Wood Paintings Beyond Amer...

Grant Wood painted one of the most haunting images in American art. Explore 8 lesser-known Grant Wood paintings that reveal the rest of his story.

 Maurice Denis, Springtime, c.1894-99 via The MET

Arthur Kingsley

Les Nabis: The French Brotherhood of Painting P...

Discover how a Parisian painterly brotherhood broke from illusionistic tradition to reshape modern art through color, decoration, and design.

Fra Angelico, The Annunciation, 1440-45, Convent of San Marco, Florence via Wikipedia/Public

Rebecca Levenson

Why Fra Angelico Painted the Annunciation Four ...

Across four paintings and two decades, Fra Angelico reworked the Annunciation, refining architecture, gesture, and theology each time.

S.I. Newhouse Jr., Manhattan, 1970. Jackson Pollock (hanging, left), John Chamberlain (sculpture, left), Helen Frankenthaler (hanging, middle), Franz Kline (hanging, right).

Margaret Allen

Legendary Private Art Collections You Need To Know

From Columbus to St. Moritz, Paris to Houston, here's a look at ten of the most celebrated private art collections in history and the collectors who built them.

Gerda Wegener, Venus and Amor, 1930 via Obelisk Art History

Samuel Reed

The Garden Paintings Art History Hasn't Talked ...

From Cranach's Eden to Carrington's alchemical garden, these paintings remake the garden as a space of desire, moral weight, and female power.

Arshile Gorky, Water of the Flowery Mill, 1944  © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York via The MET

Eliza Warren

Ranking the Abstract Expressionists, Least to M...

Ten Abstract Expressionist painters ranked by today's cultural recognition, with a look at the postwar movement that shaped them all.

David Montgomery, David Hockney, 1969, Getty Images via W Magazine.

Nathan Cole

David Hockney (1937-2026): A Life in Light and ...

David Hockney, the pioneering British painter behind A Bigger Splash, has died at 88. A look at his life, work, and lasting influence.

Tuna Özkaragöz, Resting in Space, 2025 via Instagram

Rebecca Levenson

Contemporary Artists to Discover, Follow, and C...

These six contemporary artists are building distinctive careers through imaginative paintings, compelling imagery, and strong gallery support.

Faith Ringgold, Picasso's Studio: The French Collection Part I, #7, 1991 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, printed and tie-dyed pieced fabric, ink, 73 x 68 inches. Worcester Art Museum. © Faith Ringgold / ARS, NY and DACS, London, courtesy ACA Galleries, New Y

Jack Lowry

The Reinterpretations of Picasso’s Les Demoisel...

Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon continues to inspire artists who challenge, expand, and transform its legacy in their own, more modern recreations.

Paula Rego, The Family, 1988. Acrylic on paper on canvas via Victoria Miro Gallery.

Louisa Penrose

Guide to Understanding & Analyzing Paula Rego's...

Our educational guide to understanding how storytelling, power, performance, and the body shape Paula Rego's psychologically charged paintings.