It was supposed to be an epochal Year of the Woman. With Hillary Clinton cruising toward the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, 2008 would represent a historic breakthrough, a triumph of ...

Mary Cassatt Gave Women a Place in the Impressionist Movement Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art. Discover how she ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On the surface, “Her Paris” plays out like a bit of nostalgia for the bad old days when women were denied opportunities to study, make and exhibit art solely ...

Elizabeth Nourse, Self-Portrait, 1892. (Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts) Whether or not Paris was the “capital of the 19th century,” as it has sometimes been called, it really was the ...

Auguste Renoir’s masterpiece *Girl with a Pink and Black Hat* (1891) fully embodies the French Impressionist master’s signature style: soft, plump, and warm portrayals of figures. In the 1890s, Renoir ...

Put a crayon in the chubby fist of a 5-year-old and the resulting drawings might only loosely resemble reality. Purple trees and blue dogs with what may or may not be wings. Everything out of ...

Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965), Gloucester Fleet, n.d., Oil on canvas, 30 ¼ x 40 ¼ in. (76.84 x 102.24 cm), Collection of David and ‘Weezie’ Reese. Photo ...

When the Denver Art Museum was chosen as one of the few locations in the United States to host the “Her Paris” exhibition, curator Angelica Daneo knew she had a challenge ahead of her when designing ...

Part artist’s manifesto, part memoir, and part catty burn-book, Paul Gauguin’s Avant et après resurfaced several years ago after having been missing for a century. In the Courtauld Institute’s ...

Dan Evans has penned a glitzy whodunit whose plot machinations are slight but are at least as intriguing as one of the better episodes of "Murder She Wrote." Set in the world of female impressionists, ...