The international upswing in traditional realist painting — what’s now being called “classical realism” — has a new face in Vermont: that of Emilie Lee. The 35-year-old returned home to Vermont last ...

The Art Renewal Center (ARC), based in New Jersey, has maintained a mission of promoting and preserving the tradition of realist art since its founding in 2009. A core tenet in both the ARC’s ...

John Thomas Biggers’ The Mandolin Player is an important painting for many reasons. First, the painting is representative of the social realist movement of the ’30s and ’40s. You might know another ...

Making a good painting merely takes setting all the strokes in order. Put that way, it sounds easy. Realism in painting never loses its appeal for just this reason. Not because we have some mysterious ...

Despite my longtime interest in New York art from the 1970s, I somehow never imagined delving into an artistic process called, quite literally, “rectal realism.” However, over a week ago, I found ...

Teacups and saucers neatly stacked on a kitchen counter. Golden sunlight streaming through a hallway window. A blue hydrangea cutting resting in a paper cup. These are among the morsels of beauty ...

Early in his career, Jeremiah William McCarthy was told by a mentor, “Until you lay your hand and eye on all the objects in the collection, you can’t call yourself a curator.” When he came to The ...

Plenty of collectors want to donate artworks to museums, but the museums don't always welcome them with open arms. "We say 'no thanks' 19 times out of 20," says Betsy Broun, director at the American ...

There are big blank spots on the walls of some prominent homes in Philadelphia. Twelve of the 15 American landscape paintings now on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art were pulled from local ...

Artists are always nervous before a big show, hoping for the best reaction … and fearing the worst. Andrew Rodgers has reason to be especially tense. “Our Memories as Water,” an exhibit of Rodgers’ ...