The lighthouse itself is a study in practical beauty—a two-and-a-half-story brick keeper’s dwelling with a 52-foot tower rising from its center like an exclamation point on Lake Huron’s shoreline.

She designed her first pattern, Silver Beach, a toile-esque design adorned with hand-illustrated nautical motifs such as tugboats, seagulls and lighthouses, and built a full collection from there.

Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before being auctioned. Titled ‘The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St ...

The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising Squall features a dramatic view of a former hot spring and spa in ...

Banksy has unveiled a new artwork featuring a lighthouse and the phrase "I want to be what you saw in me" at an undisclosed location. The elusive artist shared an image of the work on Instagram ...

WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in ...

A woman views a painting at the exhibition entitled "From Corot to Impressionism: A Flowing Platette" at Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, May 16, 2025.

Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait took on the title as the world’s first masterpiece in oils, and the artist has been memorialized as the “father of oil painting.” But oil ...

Just Stop Oil will no longer throw soup at paintings as it ends direct action. The group says it has been "one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history", but after ...

The UK climate activist group Just Stop Oil announced that it will end disruptive acts of protest, which have included throwing soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” smashing the glass ...

Shutterstock Welcome to Wisconsin’s Most Beautiful Peninsula Door County stretches 70 miles into Lake Michigan like a finger, with 300 miles of rocky shoreline where limestone cliffs reach 150 feet ...