Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a ...

Mary Cassatt’s pastel portrait ‘Sara in a Bonnet’ (C. 1901). (Courtesy SBMA, Bequest of Leslie L. Ridley-Tree) Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art lecture series Art Matters will present a talk ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- 'Mary Cassatt at Work' is the first large-scale U.S. exhibition of the artist's work in 25 years. "She's often known as a painter, but in fact, as the exhibition reveals, she ...

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" (1877–78), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 51 1/8 inches (89.5 x 129.9 cm); National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (all images courtesy Philadelphia ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...

At the risk of hoarding, here’s a good reason to save stuff. The stuff, that is, of someone who is currently famous or is expected to become so: This week Shelburne Craft School director Sage ...

Cassatt gave the three well-loved, wooden boxes of pastels to a friend's 10-year-old granddaughter, who later recalled: "I wasted lots of them on... Now That's An Artifact: See Mary Cassatt's Pastels ...