Listen to and watch an in-depth visual description of Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers by artist Frances Hodgkins. Hear a detailed description of the painting and learn more about how the artist made the work. Loveday and Ann were two young women, daughters of fishermen from St Ives in Cornwall, where New Zealand-born Hodgkins was living in 1915. While in Cornwall, and also during stays in Paris, Hodgkins developed her distinctive representative style and characteristic use of colour. At her death in 1947 she was considered one of New Zealand’s – and Britain’s - leading modern artists.
October 2020 Art News
This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art encourages everyone to consider the bonds between us with Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering.
From the art neighborhoods of the Lower East Side to Chelsea, women artists have kicked off New York’s fall cultural season with some of the best exhibitions in the city.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of a grand diptych by Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People), created by the Ontario-based Cree artist.
Experts are anticipating a record-breaking sale in January when a rare Sandro Botticelli portrait comes to auction.
A 67-million-year-old dinosaur fossil known as “Stan” was the star of the show at Christie’s last night when it sold for $31,847,500 after a protracted bidding war between buyers on the phone in New York and London.
"The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter’s Stained-Glass Art" is the first survey and major scholarly assessment of this groundbreaking artist’s thirty-seven-year career.
Drawn from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection and important private collections, this exhibition of the the Joryū Hanga Kyōkai unearths a critical, dynamic, and understudied episode of modern printmaking history.
One of the most sought-after female artists on record, Irma Stern was a truly international creative force. In this episode of Expert Voices, discover the stories behind an exquisite collection of works that trace Stern’s journey from a controversial young artist in Cape Town to becoming a critically acclaimed and internationally recognized artist.
Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s Mural is a focused exhibition dedicated to the first monumental painting by American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956).
