A good portrait not only captures a likeness, but the person’s spirit, says Susan Durkee of Redding, adding, “It is that sense of spirit that viewers respond to, that gives them pleasure when they ...

This George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart, commissioned by James Madison, has a colorful history. Now Christie’s in New York will auction it in January.

Figurative artist Claire Connolly is embarking upon a two-prong artistic journey that begins with a series of seven oil portraits depicting childbearing women of color – each imbued with personal ...

We Are South Brooklyn, an exhibit displaying over 200 oil portrait paintings of South Brooklynites, officially opened to the public at Sunset Park’s Industry City on Feb. 24. Kensington-based artist ...

Artist Rusty Zimmerman, founder of the Free Portrait Project, has started a year-long residency at Industry City — where he’s taken on the challenge to paint and record the histories of 200 people ...

The underlying image in René Magritte's "La cinquième saison" (1943) (photo courtesy Royal Museum of Fine Arts) A team of researchers has discovered the face of a woman peering out from beneath ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Artist Richard Davies, left, was commissioned by Tanya’s Soup Kitchen owner Kelly Rae Leffel, right, to create portraits of staff members to go along with a famous painting he did of late owner Tanya ...