Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

Although popular audiences reacted with humor to art they perceived as elite, the Armory Show nonetheless became a landmark in popularizing modern painting in the U.S. Following World War I, an ...

The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian ... and other works of art by late 19th century and early 20th century American artists. Photographs from the ...

X-ray and infrared imaging has revealed a long-hidden painting beneath "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," providing ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established a museum ... a practicing Muslim -- supposedly a rarity in 19th century America, though that question is still open to ...