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“Creativity takes courage,” the French artist Henri Matisse once declared. That certainly describes the experience of the American Neoclassical sculptor and feminist, Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). Known as the first female...

Over 50 years ago, a man working in an art gallery asked art historian Linda Nochlin a question: “Why have there been no great women artists?” In 1971, Nochlin published...

Like many Impressionists in the late 19th century, Mary Cassatt was deeply influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. Cassatt was one of the few professional women artists of the 19th century....

Once he was a lonely, moody young man trying to figure out his place in the world. This is the Picasso that lost himself in his Blue, and Rose periods....

In 1887, Vincent van Gogh purchased a large number of Japanese prints. His goal was to sell them. This did not pan out. Instead, these ukiyo-e prints opened Van Gogh’s...

Dynasty 18 (ca. 1550/1549 to 1292 BCE) of the New Kingdom marks the “Golden Age” of ancient Egypt. The Upper and Lower kingdoms were reunified, resulting in an exuberant amount...