The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...

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 ...

Photoshop cc 2019 tutorial showing how to create a cartoon portrait without using the oil paint filter, nor any filters from the Filter Gallery. Royalty-free stock photos provided by Shutterstock id # ...

In the 1840 oil painting, a man named Frederick wears a scarlet vest under his black coat and a blue bow tie beneath his translucent lace collar. His spine is straight, his shoulders are back. It's a ...

A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Leighton, widely believed to be the only oil portrait he personally sat for, has sold for £152,800 at a Bonhams auction, far surpassing its original estimate of ...

When oil painter Richard Abraham was growing up on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’d spend time in his local library’s art section. Books on illustration and painting, he recalled, were right next to ...

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 ...

During the fall of her final year as president of Smith College, Kathleen McCartney was handed a package containing samples of the work of dozens of artists. Her task: Choose one for the job of ...

Fashion isn’t art, or so they say, but plenty of designers flit between the two worlds. Tom Ford is an accomplished filmmaker and Helmut Lang famously destroyed his archive and transformed it into ...

'Jeopardy!' icon Ken Jennings responded to previous champion Kate Kohn's tweet with the oil painting she promised to buy with her prize money. Kohn took to Twitter to remind the world of what she told ...