Blog posts tagged with 'American Art'

A concise introduction to Ammi Phillips, one of nineteenth-century America's most important folk portrait painters, based on Stacy C. Hollander's article "Revisiting Ammi Phillips" in the February 1994 issue of The Magazine Antiques. The article explains how Phillips's changing style, unsigned works, rural patrons, and scattered historical record made him one of the great attribution stories in American folk art.

An in-depth look at George Grosz’s Cape Cod years and how exile transformed one of the twentieth century’s most complex modernists.

A review of the media in which American artist Winslow Homer worked and the probabilities of finding his works of art available for sale.