As the iconic Bertha’s Mussels closed after 50 years, selling off its contents in the process, a woman came across an old portrait for sale in a storeroom there and immediately contacted her friend, ...

Antonio Solario's painting was snatched from the Civic Museum of Belluno in 1973. Now, after a drawn out legal battle and a convincing case argued by the art world's 'Sherlock Holmes', its British own ...

Over the years, my mom was in group exhibitions but never sought out a gallery show. To this day, she has a mixture of ...

An oil painter and a photographer share the “Generations” show in the Pump House Center for the Arts this month. Pickaway ...

Artist Diane Firtell kicked off a summer artist series with an oil painting demonstration at the Frelinghuysen Morris House ...

A fundraising campaign has been launched to bring one of the earliest works by JMW Turner back to the city of Bristol where the artist painted it when he was 17 years old.

Friends of the Monroeville Public Library will host award-winning fine artist and graphic designer Joe Winkler June 27 - July 29 at the library’s Gallery Space. The exhibit,“Oil ...

A rare oil painting of Mahatma Gandhi, thought to be the only one he ever sat for, will be put up for auction in London next month. Decades ago, the rare painting was violently attacked, allegedly by ...

Home The Finer Things Art and Antiques This obscure and unloved picture that turned out to be Turner's first oil painting — and it's about to sell for 500 times what it last cost JMW Turner's 'The ...

Lost for over 150 years, one of JMW Turner’s earliest oil paintings is about to go on display at London’s Sotheby’s before being auctioned. Titled ‘The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St ...

In oil painting, double bonds in the long carbon chains of the oil react with oxygen from the air as the artworks dry. This creates new chemical connections that stabilise the final, cured layers.