This article introduces in chronological sequence five recently acquired works by leading Black modern and contemporary artists, made between the 1940s and the recent present.

Mary Cassatt is triply distinguished as among the greatest American artists, the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, and one of the finest female painters of the Western tradition. Little Girl in a Large Red Hat , completed at the...

We recently spoke with Karl Kusserow, co-curator of the Museumʼs groundbreaking 2018 exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment and editor of the forthcoming book Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective . The publication features essays by scholars...

For the final twenty-five years of his life, Thomas Eakins devoted himself largely to portraiture, the genre most befitting his intense interest in the human condition.

“BAM/BLM: Black Arts, Black Lives,” by Karl Kusserow for the Italian art publication Finestra sull’Arte , looks at the welcome challenges to artistic and museum orthodoxies in light of Black Lives Matter and the earlier Black Arts Movement.

The Art Museum has recently acquired an extraordinary group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934–2015). The nearly five thousand works, which come to the Museum from Graves’s estate, span the entire range of his...

How can paintings from the nineteenth century reflect views about westward expansion? What can a high chest of drawers from Philadelphia reveal about the trade of mahogany? How have works by contemporary artists contributed to modern ecological consciousness? These are...