Contemporary artist Amy Sherald with her painting 'As American as apple pie' prior to her first West Coast exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in L.A. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Amy Sherald ...

Portraits are about far more than pencil or paint. But for most of our nation’s history, Black Americans were denied that public honor. Now, with a collection of 145 portraits of America’s iconic and ...

For much of European history, portraits offered powerful individuals the chance to convey their wealth and strength through the canvas. In some works, details ranging from the aggressive stance and ...

Justus Suttermans, Flemsih, 1597-1681; Domenica delle Cascine, la Cecca di Pratolino, and Pietro Moro, 1634; Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by Opal and Arthur H. Meyer Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. John ...

Paul Stanley is widely known as one of the founders and frontmen of KISS, yet there’s another art form he’s found meaning in outside of music. For more than two decades, Stanley has dedicated time to ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — In the more than 50 years since Bill Carnahan created his first two paintings, he has captured thousands of picturesque old barns, landscapes and animals on canvas. Carnahan didn’t ...

Artist Benjamin Ferry had walked his dog past Bené Millinery “a thousand times,” he says, before he worked up the courage to go in. The shop on Third Street NW had struck him as “magical” before he ...