The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

His social realism style was well suited to the difficult subjects, including racism and other forms of oppression, he took on in his art.

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

ArtReview is pleased to announce the launch of its first foreign-language edition, available from 10 November, during Shanghai Art Week. Drawing is a fundamental component of Sir John Soane’s Museum, ...

Pop to Popism, held at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2014, was not a show that left glowing memories, but one work has remained lodged in my mind. John Olsen is one of Australia's most recognised artists ...

Conjure a painter who possessed all the qualities of a true bon vivant – youthful charm, sophistication, good looks, and bold ...

A single mom in Atlanta (Taraji P. Henson) is having a very, very, very bad day. By Lisa Kennedy In Nina Conti’s absurdist love story, a radio host and a new friend have nowhere to go but up. By ...

With an American flag as a backdrop, a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother ... Army Gen. John L. DeWitt, recommended that people of Japanese ancestry ...

The portrait, known as ‘the secret picture ... more than 400 items have been sourced from across the Royal Collection, including paintings, drawings, photographs, jewellery and sculpture ...

81.3 x 66.1 cm. (32 x 26 in.) ...