Allison C. Meier

Two decades before he was interred beneath a stark tombstone, the artist Andrew Wyeth imagined his own funeral. In about fifty drawings from the early 90s known as the “Funeral Group,” he sketched…

Gordon Parks’s Rare Photos of Pittsburgh’s WWII-era Industry

In 1931—between the Great Depression and segregation—a beautiful tombstone was often a privilege denied. Edmonson lost his janitorial job at a Nashville hospital and felt inspired to pursue a new…

Shifting the longstanding narrative about American modern art to include a long-overlooked woman who embraced both visual and spiritual experimentation.

The ground-breaking exhibition not only expands art history, drawing attention to the engagement of black models in modernism, it also questions the role of museums and asks how these spaces can be…

A cache of silver left behind by the Roman Gauls reveals a complex and diverse Roman Empire.

Life Cut Short: Hamilton’s Hair and the Art of Mourning Jewelry is a compact exhibition that explores how this now obscure practice was part of a larger culture of mourning in New York City and…

The multi-talented designer is often overlooked in art and design history. The Cooper Hewitt, which has a large collection of her eclectic works, has sought to change that.

Rescued from the dustbin of history, remnants of the wrought iron that once decorated Paris are now treasured works of art.

The French architect and draftsman Jean‐Jacques Lequeu was little-known and impoverished when he donated hundreds of his drawings to the French national library. Six months later, he died and…

Despite the importance and innovation of this work, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey’s legacy has long been obscure.

Pregnancy is a common experience of women that is rarely seen in historic portraiture.

When historian and journalist Eve Kahn encountered a trove of letters from artist Mary Rogers Williams in 2012, there were scarce references to the late painter online, and her work had barely been…

The treasure is believed to have belonged to a family caught up in 14th-century violence that destroyed the thriving Jewish community of Colmar in Alsace. That anything at all survives is a miracle.…

A scientific advancement and an artistic breakthrough created a craze for Tiffany glass which still endures today.