An art historian posits the identity of one of the most famous limners of Puritan new England
Bringing the Art of the People to Boston
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts offers a reappraisal of the institution’s foundational folk art collection
Portraits, Purpose, and Perceptions
Early American Folk Artists Ruth W. Shute and Samuel A. Shute
On books: July/August 2021
What effect did 20th century social and cultural developments have on studio jewelry?
End notes: The Struggle Search Continues
Three of the missing six panels in Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle series make their debut in a new exhibition
An Immigrant Artist of the Jazz Age
A forthcoming exhibition at the New-York Historical Society cast a spotlight on the under-sung Winold Reiss
How American Weathervanes Became Art
An excerpt from the book that is the basis for a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum
Empathy on Her Palette
What emerges from the portraits of Alice Neel is a sense of the artist’s own compassionate decency
Current and coming: In New Bedford, Ryder on the Storm
The energetically abstracted land- and seascapes of Albert Pinkham Ryder are coming to the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Current and coming: Revisiting Objects: USA at R and Company
Objects: USA 2020 – a new exhibition at the New York gallery R and Company serves as an homage to and a reboot of the original