Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting. It’s often seen as a tedious exercise reserved for hyperrealists – or for those who’ve supposedly run out of ideas.

A traveling exhibition resurrects Rachel Ruysch, an ambitious Dutch painter (and two-time lottery winner) whose intricate ...

The first major landscape painting by a woman artist has just entered the collection of the New Britain Museum of American ...

Historians of the still life genre, such as Norman Bryson in his book “ Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting ” are quick to point out that the Xenia, though recognizable to ...

The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has announced the opening of “Come Into Bloom: Flower Paintings from the Permanent ...

Clara Peeters, "Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries" (c. 1625), oil on wood panel, held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (image public domain via LACMA) Success! Your account ...

Except there was an art book sitting on a little ottoman in front of me, and on the cover of it was a still-life painting. It was a 17th century Dutch breakfast painting.

Clara Peeters, Still Life with Flowers Surrounded by Insects and a Snail (ca. 1610). Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...

Smith College alumna Nava Grunfeld recently opened a retrospective show of still lifes and figure paintings at the Smith Alumnae House Gallery. The exhibition, “Lit from Within,” will be on ...