Ann Craven: Birds We Know installation view (all images courtesy of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art; photograph by Dave Clough) ROCKLAND, Maine — Birds have a long and varied history in art, ...

Nearly two dozen of the artist’s paintings are currently on view in Sarah Stone’s Unseen World: A Rare Collection of 18th ...

Leonardo da Vinci during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the “universal man,” at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But ...

“Madonna della Vittoria,” by the Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, must have looked imposing when it was first installed as an altarpiece in Santa Maria della Vittoria, a small chapel in the ...

Diminutive and detailed works on display as part of First Thursday Art Walk To hear Miki Harder talk or to see her recent paintings, you’d think birds were a lifelong obsession. But no. Before it was ...

John W. Taylor's paintings of birds are as much textbook as art. Taylor paints birds in their natural settings, striving to get the feel of the birds and their habitat across to the viewer. About 30 ...

This painting is a facsimile of a scene of marsh life that formed a continuous frieze in the so-called 'Green Room' in the North Palace at Amarna. (Artist: Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965) and Norman ...

As a child growing up in Chicago, Al Gilbert would skip school to visit the zoo, where he spent his days drawing the animals in his sketchbook. Now, Gilbert is one of the world’s top wildlife artists, ...

In a recent exhibition at the Anchorlight Gallery in Raleigh, artist Saba Taj channeled the emotional pain they felt over the violence in Gaza since Oct. 7 into a series of paintings that feature ...

At an early age Dick Parks became fascinated with birds and gradually taught himself to convey his deep affection for them by painting enchanting water colors. Five years ago, at the presentation of a ...

There are only about 120 complete sets of John James Audubon’s Birds of America in the world today, and one of them is at the Milwaukee Public Library's Richard and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room.