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Arshile Gorky, How My Mother's Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944, © Arshile Gorky Foundation, via the Arshile Gorky Foundation [AGCR: P296]

Nathan Cole

Arshile Gorky and the Art of Studying Everyone ...

Before his signature abstraction, Arshile Gorky moved through Cézanne, Picasso, Munch, Léger, and Kandinsky, building the language that made him.

Tania Marmolejo, I Always Come Back Here, 2019, oil on canvas via Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery

Rebecca Levenson

Contemporary Women Artists We Can't Stop Thinki...

These contemporary women painters are building distinctive careers through surreal imagery, technical mastery, and growing representation worldwide.

Gustav Klimt, Old Man on his Death-Bed, c. 1899 via Arthive

Jack Lowry

The Most Haunting Deathbed Portraits in Art His...

A ranking of the most haunting deathbed portraits in art history, spanning royal commissions, anonymous painters, and one strikingly unconventional final entry.

Donald Judd inspecting prototypes or finished works (as above, at Bernstein Brothers in the 1960s © 2020 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © Elizabeth Baker, courtesy Judd Foundation Archive via The Guggenheim

Rebecca Levenson

Inside 4 Artist House Museums That Reveal Their...

Step inside four artist house museums, from Monet's Giverny to Dalí's Port Lligat, where painters and sculptors built their art into their homes.

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.