Richard Mayhew has been labeled an American Impressionist, a neo-Barbizon, a romantic Realist and a painter of Expressionistic landscapes. "I don't like characterizations too much," chuckled Mayhew, ...

Seeing the work of local artists mature over the years is one of the great pleasures of keeping a close eye on the area art scene. As many artists know, it often takes years to develop a body of work ...

In 1972, a young Lawrence Leissner took a class with renowned artist Richard Diebenkorn, a visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute. “He shows up twice all semester and then only ...

The artist George Morrison just got the ultimate stamp of approval courtesy of the United States Postal Service. Five vibrantly colored abstract landscapes the artist, who died in 2000, are now ...

Artist-activist Anne Nelson has produced a series of mixed-media paintings meant to capture the Crescent City’s uncertain relationship with the water that surrounds it and that regularly intrudes into ...

Chances are when Sean Scully paints, it will look something like this: geometric, colorful grids, stripes woven together, his signature style. "I use very simple structure," Scully told correspondent ...

New paintings by the musician Thom Yorke, lead singer of the English rock band Radiohead, will go on view at Tin Man Art gallery in London. The works were produced with artist Stanley Donwood, a ...

If Betsy DeFusco had her choice of some exotic vacation or painting alone in her German Village studio, she'd likely pick the latter. "When you're painting, it's blissful," DeFusco said. Her exhibit, ...

Artists who prefer to paint the light houses of Lake Michigan or the rolling hills of the Sleeping Bear Dunes are called landscape artists. They use nature as their palette. The end product can be a ...