Art often challenges viewers by confronting us with what’s next. What’s new. As you’ll find now at The San Diego Museum of Art, it can also challenge viewers by confronting us with what’s come before ...

Lost to scholars for the past 90 years, “The Cherry Picker” recently resurfaced in the hands of Baltimore native Dorothy Bair. “The reappearance of this major canvas by 19th-century French academic ...

The academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a model of success in 19th-century French culture. Like many artists of the era who were not avant-garde, Bouguereau was a staunch traditionalist, a ...

The focus is on photography at many institutions with the opening of shows that celebrate the medium as well as those behind the lens. But art comes in many forms this season, from a drawing by ...

William Bouguereau, a prominent French academic painter during the 1880s and early 1900s, eloquently captured in his paintings what all inevitably lose with age and time: innocence and freedom. With ...

Much like the stock market, the cachet of 19th century French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau has had its ups and downs over the years. "Bouguereau & America," which opens Friday and hangs through ...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), a preeminent French academic painter, was born in La Rochelle into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. His early artistic sensibility was nurtured by his ...

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art this week opens an exhibition devoted to a man once cherished and later scorned as "the most popular painter in the United States." The paintings range from ...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) is the artist everyone loves to hate. His meticulously rendered—nary a brushstroke in sight—and idealized images of comely country lasses, doe-eyed street ...

Allen Funt Director / producer of Candid camera (TV Series) admired collector of William- Adolphe Bouguereau's paintings. Richard and I are extremely pleased with our purchases from you. All the ...

The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots Sotheby’s Master Week series in New York 18 - 30 January is set to be among the ...

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter, best known for his realist depictions of the human figure set within Neoclassical and rustic settings. Born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825 ...