Many Americans first saw modern art at the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, now simply called the Armory Show. Although two-thirds of the works exhibited were by American painters, their European counterparts stole the show. Americans may have been familiar with [...]
Horace Pippin. Self Portrait, 1944. Oil on canvas adhered to cardboard, 8 1/2" by 6 1/2". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Horace Pippin (1888-1946), now one of the most renowned African American artists, began painting as physical therapy to recover [...]
Paul Revere, one of the most famous paintings by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), hangs in the new Art of the Americas wing at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Although the name "Copley" is commonplace in names of Boston streets, hotels, and stores, this is [...]
