paintings

For artist Alice Neel, people always came first

April 4, 2022 By Michael Berkowitz

Virtually ignored for much of her early career, Alice Neel’s life and work are beacons for socially conscious artists, especially women.

Caravaggio at 450: A maverick Realist painter in the Baroque era

September 27, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Caravaggio is most frequently considered a Baroque artist. How true is this?

Peasant Bruegel: An appreciation of the Dutch realist painter

September 5, 2019 By Jenny Farrell

His art represents the early stages, the progressive, indeed revolutionary, element of bourgeois realism.

Artist Ben Shahn was moved by the Tom Mooney case

July 25, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

Ben Shahn was moved in the early 1930s to paint a series of works based on the infamous Tom Mooney case. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) currently has a display of these works...