November 2016
Biography: William McTaggart
William McTaggart was one of Scotland’s most influential landscape and marine painters, often referred to as the “Scottish Impressionist” due to…
Biography: Alexandre-Jacques Chantron
Alexandre-Jacques Chantron (1842–1918) was a French painter whose life and work spanned the latter half of the 19th century and the…
The Brittany School: How Rural France Inspired Modern Art
The Brittany School wasn’t a school in the traditional sense—it had no curriculum, no official building, and no formal instructors. Instead,…
Biography: Jacek Malczewski
Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929) was a prominent Polish Symbolist painter associated with the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is…
Inspiration: “Dimanche,” by Paul Signac
Paul Signac experimented with various media. As well as oil paintings and watercolors he made etchings, lithographs, and many pen-and-ink sketches composed of small, laborious…
