An artwork purchased for $50 has been identified as an original painting by Canadian artist Emily Carr. Next month, the piece ...

Phillip's auction will sell three paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat ... Annina Nosei, in the early '80s. Leading the New York sale on May 14 is the monumental 1982 picture Untitled (ELMAR ...

Over 21,000 painters and nearly 15,000 sculptors are represented in the database. The Inventory of American Paintings began in the early 1970s, and has collected data on over 350,000 paintings created ...

A third of an online auction at Christie’s from a single, anonymous collection is being sold without a reserve ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known ... MA in 1831. In his early 20s, Bierstadt traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany to gain deeper knowledge and skill of painting, returning to the ...

A $50 barn yard steal turned out to be a masterpiece by Canadian artist Emily Carr. Now it could fetch $150,000 at auction.

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

Early American Art, 19th and 20th–Century Art; Contemporary Art; Photography; Modern Folk and Self-Taught Art; African American Art; Latino Art; New Deal Art; and the Luce Foundation Center for ...

One day in the late 1960s, not long after the Jolly Rancher firm had been acquired by Beatrice Foods, Dorothy's passion for antiques and primitive art took her into a Wheat Ridge shop owned by Vic ...

Senator Dianne Feinstein collected fine jewelry, paintings and a trove of political mementos. Because of her trust, many of ...

A man who found an Emily Carr painting at a barn sale in the Hamptons, N.Y., earlier this year could now earn a big payday ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around ... so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule ...