Precision, observation, and patience come together in this realistic still life fruit drawing. The artwork focuses on ...

This live art-making class is inspired by Paul Cézanne’s watercolor painting Three Pears (Trois poires), ca. 1888–90. In this session, we will explore drawing basic shapes that are illuminated by a ...

She was the queen of the 17th-century still life—and her patrons shelled out lavish sums to own her resplendent flowers. Rachel Ruysch, born in the Hague in 1664, rose to fame for her exquisitely ...

The Hyde Collection exhibit blends three shows from women artists across centuries into a unified exploration of the still ...

Lines divide a surface, colors fill it. This age-old art-school adage neatly sums up the relationship between drawing and painting, while glossing over its inherent contradictions. Does drawing define ...

In the 17th century, Holland was in bloom. Following a bout of “tulipmania” in the 1630s, it became fashionable to visit the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam’s botanical garden, to catch a glimpse of a ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

In Katherine Packert Burke’s debut novel, a woman is haunted by change while grappling with the death of a friend. By Angela Lashbrook Angela Lashbrook is a freelance writer who has written for The ...