The remote location of the sparse gallery space makes it seem as though the paintings were found interred, long unseen. “Saturnino X” recalls the illustrator Edward Gorey’s thin line work, but instead ...

Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch is one of the world’s best-known paintings. Dating from 1642, the strikingly large canvas – 4.6m across and 3.8m high – depicts a group of civic militia guards led ...

With his first "starry night" painting in Arles in 1888, Vincent van Gogh transformed an ordinary city square into something extraordinary – here's how he did it, and what it means. Before there was ...

How do you paint the color gold? It’s a question that comes up early for many artists, as soon as they’re drawing their first princess crown or dragon hoard and find that the yellow or brown crayons ...

"Living with Art: Early American Modernism from the Baker/Pisano Collection of the Heckscher Museum of Art," NY: Hollis Taggart Galleries, c2002. West, Richard V., "An Enkindled Eye: The Paintings of ...