Artist Peggy Macnamara is pointing to the back feathers of a spotted owl, one of the thousands of preserved birds on exhibit at the Field Museum. At first glance, the owl appears to be just a ...

A Color Field painting is characterized by pouring, staining, spraying, or painting thinned paint onto raw canvas to create vast chromatic expanses. The movement constitutes one of the crowning ...

It's a massive undertaking, taking two days. The history center said the painting is about the length of a football field (359 feet) and 42 feet tall.

CHICAGO (CBS) --Prehistoric cave paintings so fragile they're sealed from human view are coming to the Field Museum of Natural History in replica next March.Yves Coppens, chairman of the Lascaux ...

In an auction that involved daylong drama and suspense, Chicago’s Field Museum sold a collection of 19th Century Western art for $17.4million Thursday to an anonymous bidder and pledged to use ...

Paintings from this period constitute one of the crowning achievements of postwar American abstract art. "Color as Field," organized by the American Federation of Arts, offers an opportunity to ...

A painting of The Field of the Cloth of Gold (around 1545) in Hampton Court Palace, by an unnamed British artist Photo: Royal Collection Trust.

Adrienne Gaither's abstract color paintings are meticulously constructed, their bright hues divided by straight, hard-edge lines. Yet there's a sense of disorder and even menace in some of them ...

The painting, Palazzolo said, is called “Bums,” referring to the famous Bleacher Bums of Wrigley Field. The characters depicted include a policeman arresting one of the bums in the stands ...