Winslow Homer

It's a sparkling day in Trouville, France, the seaside resort town on the English Channel where painter Claude Monet, 30, on his honeymoon, captures the sun, the sand and the chic passers-by in all their finery and parasols on the boardwalk in front of...

OPENING Holiday Gift Show: Opening reception, noon-3 p.m. today. Artists' talk, noon Nov. 30. Through Dec. 21. Gallery at St. John's, 330 Ferry St., Easton. 610-258-6119. 53rd Annual Juried Open Exhibition: Paintings, drawings, mixed media, sculpture...

The contrast is striking. On the front cover of the catalog for "Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s-1950s" -- an exhibition opening at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Art on Thursday -- Asher B. Durand's Study of a Wood Interior (ca. 1855) details a quiet...

People, Politics and Perversion: The Photographs of Hélène Gaillet (Monday-Dec. 19, Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post, Brookville). The celebrity of politics and the politics of celebrity are revealed in the candid portraits of artists and politicians by the...

The Harper's Choice Community Association, the Columbia Archives and the Howard County Library will co-sponsor a four-part discussion series and reading group on the street names in Harper's Choice. Missy Burge, Robin Emerich and Barbara Kellner, authors...

This week's opinion essay by Gabrielle Selz was inspired by the current exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton called "Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor." The paintings, sculptures and installations explore how artists have thought about,...

Fortunately or unfortunately, Salem, Mass., is known around the world for its infamous past. It was the location of the macabre Salem witch trials around 1692, which resulted in the deaths of 20 innocent people and the imprisonment of hundreds more....

Fortunately or unfortunately, Salem, Mass., is known around the world for its infamous past. It was the macabre location of the Salem witch trials of 1692, which resulted in the deaths of 20 innocent people and the imprisonment of hundreds more. Today,...

This year marks two milestones for the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale. The first is the merger announced last month with Nova Southeastern University, a union that brings the museum the school's fundraising muscle, as well as a partner to shoulder costs...

First Lady Laura Bush visits a New Orleans high school that was given 40 pieces of great American art as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities' Picturing America project. The project gives public schools and libraries reproductions of...

Sand: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor (June 29-Sept. 14 at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton). We play in it, loll on it, build castles out of it, and wash it out of our hair, but what, exactly, does sand mean? Its physical and metaphysical significance is...

If Winslow Homer's painting techniques were a mystery, even less can be said of his personal life. He grew up in a middle-class Boston home and was close all his life with his parents, who always encouraged his artistic talent, and his two brothers. As a...