In an 1841 watercolor-and-ink drawing, John James Trumbull Arnold, an itinerant artist who roamed Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania in pursuit of commissions, portrayed himself with a quill in his ...
Essie Treat Ward didn't look anything like a big city artist -- and it's likely a big city artist wouldn't have considered her paintings "art." Born in the Searcy County community of Nubbin Hill in ...
“I don’t think I’ve ever done an interview while sitting on a bucket,” Kyle Brooks, also known as the artist BlackCatTips, muses while sitting on a blue plastic painter’s bucket. It’s a sunny ...
Each year, Steve Hessler and Dolly Vehlow make a pilgrimage from their home in Washington, D.C., to the Kentuck Festival of the Arts in Northport, Ala., to chat with old friends and buy art. The art ...
A major work by Bill Traylor (around 1853-1949), a self-taught artist who was born into slavery and developed a striking and unique style of figurative painting late in life while living on the ...