WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...

The new show focuses on the famed Impressionist’s works on paper. Were they masterpieces? Less than? That is for visitors to ...

Case Antiques describes the piece as “pastel on wove paper bust-length portrait of a bearded man with vibrant blue eyes and piercing stare.” “The penetrating stare and psychological intensity of this ...

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Many mornings find Terri Cribb studying the way light falls in her front yard and striving to capture what she sees using pastels. The Madison resident paints “en plein air,” which is the French ...

One of the founders of the Impressionist art movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known for capturing intimate and joyful moments of everyday life. 150 years later, his works will be exhibited in New ...

Ten years ago, Nicolas Party came to use what is today his signature tool: pastels. Drawn to the medium for its ability to capture soft, glowing gradients—another hallmark of the Swiss artist’s ...

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The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history. Artists make the best curators.

A portrait of Cecile Black Boy titled "Kills Instead" is a part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter ...