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American art

Jasper John, Three Flags, 1958.

Why People Still Get Worked Up About Jasper Johns’s ‘Flag’ Painting

His flag paintings now fetch hundreds of millions of dollars.
By Jordan Riefe
A rough-textured bronze bust of a man with a gaunt, elongated face and hollow eyes, emerging from a heavily worked base that blurs into his shoulders.

Christie’s Secures Another Major Consignment in Max Berry’s Encyclopedic Art Collection

“It’s time for me to use what I know to start bringing to market the things I love,” Berry told Observer in an exclusive interview ahead of the sale’s announcement.
By Elisa Carollo

Judilee Reed Is the New President and CEO of United States Artists

Reed is assuming the helm of the organization at a time when ideas about artist aid are in very much in flux.
By Helen Holmes

2021’s Berresford Prize Winners are Arts Leaders Lulani Arquette and Roberto Bedoya

By Helen Holmes

Deana Haggag of United States Artists is Moving to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

By Helen Holmes

Seven Arts Funders Join Forces to Provide $5,000 Grants to Artists Affected by COVID-19

By Helen Holmes

Yale Updates Its Art History Curriculum to Be Less Eurocentric, Sparking Outrage

By Helen Holmes

Martine Syms and Melvin Edwards Among United States Artists Grant Award Winners

By Helen Holmes

These Paintings Inspired Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Adaptation

By Helen Holmes

Bill Traylor’s Outsider Art Found a Devoted Admirer in William Louis-Dreyfus

By Helen Holmes

Born From the Battle Over the NEA, Four Foundations Made a Model for Nonpartisan Arts Funding

By Lucia Love

Arts Power 50: The Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019

By Paddy Johnson, Mary von Aue, Juliet Helmke, Sissi Cao and Helen Holmes
1948 Original Study for "Tough Call" by Norman Rockwell. The work was gifted to Umpire "Beans" Reardon.

The Week in Auctions: New Records for British Cars and Norman Rockwell

By Alanna Martinez
1948 Original Study for "Tough Call" by Norman Rockwell. The work was gifted to Umpire "Beans" Reardon.

Norman Rockwell Print Turns Out to Be Original Painting Worth $300K

By Alanna Martinez
Virginia Dare (1587-?). First child born in North America of English parents, b. Roanoke Island, Virginia colony (now North Carolina). She was the granddaughter of the colony's governor, John White. The colony and its inhabitants vanished mysteriously and became known as the 'Lost Colony.'

Debate Over a Gold Ring Revives the Lost Colony of Roanoke Mystery

By Alanna Martinez
Lucille Ball.

‘Scary’ Lucille Ball Sculpture Replaced, Australian Mag Censors Nude Art on Cover

By Alanna Martinez
The Municipal House in Prague is one of the most prominent Art Nouveau buildings in the city.

Prague Named Most Art Nouveau City, Huntington Library Plans Expansion—and More

By Alanna Martinez
George Washington, (ca. 1795) by Gilbert Stuart.

When Painting George Washington Was a Cottage Industry

By Daniel Grant
Miami Venetian Islands and connection Venetian Causeway. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Bridge Closure Spells Art Basel Traffic Nightmare, ICP Nabs Mellon Grant, and More

By Alanna Martinez
Mary Cassatt, Eddy Cassatt, 1875. The painting is a gift from the family of Col. Edward Buchanan Cassatt to the National Gallery of Art, Washington. (Photo: National Gallery of Art, Washington)

A Family Portrait of ‘Grandpa,’ by Mary Cassatt, Finds a Home at the National Gallery

By Alanna Martinez
Thomas Hart Benton, Self Portrait With Rita, about 1924. (Photo: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, NY. © Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY)

Father Figure: Thomas Hart Benton’s Daughter Shares Memories of the American Master

By Alanna Martinez
An Evening dress by American designer Travis Banton , 1934. Part of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Met to Showcase the Plains Indians and China’s Influence on Fashion in 2015

By Alanna Martinez
Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932). Estimate $10/15 million, Sold for $44,405,000 at Sotheby's American Art sale on November 20, 2014. (Sotheby’s New York)

Sotheby’s $44.4M Georgia O’Keeffe Shatters Auction Record for Work by a Female Artist

By Alanna Martinez

Edward Hopper Tops Sotheby’s $35 M. American Art Sale

By Rozalia Jovanovic
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