Art often challenges viewers by confronting us with what’s next. What’s new. As you’ll find now at The San Diego Museum of Art, it can also challenge viewers by confronting us with what’s come before ...

Bouguereau & America showcases more than forty masterful paintings by the French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905). The exhibition explores the artist’s remarkable popularity ...

Lost to scholars for the past 90 years, “The Cherry Picker” recently resurfaced in the hands of Baltimore native Dorothy Bair. “The reappearance of this major canvas by 19th-century French academic ...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), a preeminent French academic painter, was born in La Rochelle into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. His early artistic sensibility was nurtured by his ...

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art this week opens an exhibition devoted to a man once cherished and later scorned as "the most popular painter in the United States." The paintings range from ...

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) is the artist everyone loves to hate. His meticulously rendered—nary a brushstroke in sight—and idealized images of comely country lasses, doe-eyed street ...

A gigantic painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau makes the trek from Paris to New York. By Ted Loos It sounds like an old joke: How do you pack up, ship and then unfurl a massive — and massively ...

A long-unseen, 12-foot-wide painting by artist Martin Wong, who created a unique visual vocabulary in the steaming cauldron of 1980s New York alongside artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat.

William Adolphe Bouguereau was a French painter, best known for his realist depictions of the human figure set within Neoclassical and rustic settings. Born in La Rochelle, France on November 30, 1825 ...