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The portrait of George Washington at the Reading Public Museum now has a frame worthy of its illustrious subject. The museum recently unveiled the striking enhancement to its 230-year-old painting by ...
The auctioneer, Michelle Leckert — who is also the auction house’s president — whacked the palm-sized gavel time and again, as precious objects including vintage Louisiana duck decoys ...
Kneeland uses typewriters to create art — specifically, portraits of people she admires ... and realized she had a “thing” for the vintage machines. She also had an idea.
This story has been corrected to explain the location of the painting and the contents of the portrait itself. A painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt that was believed to be lost for around 100 ...
This is his story. For over 100 years, this family portrait held a secret: a fourth figure that had been painted out. Now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has just acquired the painting ...
The painting’s re-emergence after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of three related teenage girls. “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” by Gustav Klimt.Credit ...
A hidden self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered behind one of his paintings, covered by layers of glue and cardboard for more than a century. The image was found when art ...
The museum’s bust-length portrait of Washington has been an important part of the its American art collection since 1939. Purchased for the museum by benefactor Gustav Oberlaender, it belonged ...