Jesus was spanking a red-bottomed little girl, as two other children looked on. “The question I want to ask Tennessee with this piece is ‘Is this your Jesus?’” Vander Ley said Tuesday.

The 10-foot by 19-foot painting, which was painted by the late merchant mariner Hunter A. Wood in 1944, depicts Jesus saving sailors lost at sea and hung in the USMMA's Wiley Hall for 76 years ...

Divine timing and an unexpected Christmas present--that's what Akiane Kramarik calls bringing the painting out of hiding after 17 years. Sitting in her North Shore home studio, Kramarik walked us ...