Evelyn De Morgan’s paintings turn spiritual belief into a visible language of colour, gesture and allegory. Working in late nineteenth-century Britain, she…
Rosa Bonheur’s paintings of horses, cattle and working animals can appear effortless at first glance. Their surfaces are lively, their compositions balanced…
Beatrice Wood was still throwing pots at ninety, then ninety-five, then well past one hundred. Her hands, weathered by a working life that began in theatrical…
Gerda Taro’s photographs of the Spanish Civil War are intimate, urgent and politically charged. They show soldiers resting between battles, civilians caught in…
Tamara de Lempicka’s portraits turn modern glamour into a visual language of sharp contours, polished surfaces and confident poses. Her paintings belong to the…
Ellinor Armer’s seascapes reward slow looking. At first, they appear to offer the familiar pleasures of marine painting: open water, shifting skies, a distant…
Camille Claudel’s name has long been linked to Auguste Rodin, yet that association can obscure the force of her own artistic vision. Her sculptures are charged…
Agnes Martin’s paintings ask for a different kind of attention. Their pale surfaces, delicate lines and restrained geometry can seem almost weightless at…
Alice Neel painted people as if their presence mattered before they had said a word. Her portraits resist polished mythology, asking viewers to meet workers,…
The Mughal courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were cradles of an extraordinary synthesis between image and script, between the painted page and…
