"Oh, two or three years ago," he said. "These, too." He pointed to a group of cigarette boxes on which he had painted women seated in armchairs. Three of them, I noticed, were dated 1940.

It’s very flat and soft and shiny. Your paintings are always filled with women—men really don’t seem to exist in your painted world. Why is that? I grew up in a society where women and ...

When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or ...

Jules Pascin was a Bulgarian-born French Expressionist painter. Known under the pseudonym of the “Prince of Montparnasse,” Pascin mainly painted women, often nude or in stages of undress, in a ...

James McNeil Whistler painted women in kimonos, and the titles of his works reveal that he was rethinking ideas about painting. Heavily influenced by Eastern aesthetics, his work became more abstract ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Jewish community in Center City Philadelphia is on edge after police say two women spray painted hateful messages in front of a historic synagogue earlier this week.

The new collection features nine different sets—including hand-painted women’s pantsuits—that bring an artsy, hand-painted touch to fashion. “It started just as a fashion presentation ...

“She was one of the first painters that painted women in a powerful way, in an independent way,” Marisa de Lempicka said. “They are in charge of their lives besides being glamorous and ...