In the Northern Song Dynasty, the tradition of pasting New Year paintings onto doors had become very popular in the capital city, according to a book written by the Chinese scholar Meng Yuanlao in ...

AROUND-TOWN. Let's Talk Antiques ... That’s true of the decorative art called folk art. ... Theorem painting was revived in the 1970s and many modern folk artists created old-looking paintings.

Folk art painting of Elgin for America’s 250th anniversary to be converted into puzzle ... He visits the town and spends time with its residents to really learn about a place, she said.

Folk art is many things and spans the entire spectrum of an ... AROUND-TOWN. Folk art enhances ... Pottery, carvings, amateur paintings, quilts, ...

The COVID pandemic has created a lot of hardships, but for one Northville artist, 2020 was her most prolific year for painting. With no out-of-town guests, or vacations, Linda Finch says she spent ...

Chances are, you’ve seen the work of local folk artist Kyle Brooks, who works under the pseudonym BlackCatTips. His ...

A Folk-Art Painting With Fine-Art Qualities. John James Trumbull Arnold’s ‘Portrait of Mary Mattingly’ reveals the station of its young sitter’s family though the work’s details. By .

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A previously stolen portrait has been returned to Historic Richmond Town after 50 years. The painting, a portrait of notable Staten Islander and original daughter of the ...

A generation experiencing rising standards of living had fewer children, and those children, now grown up, are moving to the cities.

Two sleuths — a curator and a librarian — in New Paltz, N.Y., helped the F.B.I. track down 200-year-old paintings that were stolen from a historical society in 1972.

The artworks, stolen from an old town hall in the small coastal town of Medemblik in north Holland and valued at €100,000, have been returned to art detective Arthur Brand nearly 40 miles away ...