Mary Cassat art work inspires Google

Google celebrates the birthday of American Impressionist painter Mary Cassat today, with a Google Doodle logo on their homepage. Mary Cassat was born May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and died June 14...

Yale, Van Gogh and Someone named Konowaloff

This seems to be a story of an opportunistic grandson of a Russian industrialist. He, Pierre Konowaloff, seems to be challenging the chain of activity leading to the current Yale ownership, established in 1961, of...

Revealed: a previously unknown van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh is perhaps one of the best known of the post-impressionist painters.  The later years of his life were his most prolific, but the total number of his known works has just increased by one, as...

Gang punches hole in Monet work

If that were my painting, I would rise from the grave and hunt the perpetrators down one by one."A gang of intruders has broken into a museum in Paris and inflicted serious damage on a painting by Impressionist...

An Impressionable Birthday

"It’s the birthday of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in Limoges, France (1841). He was born into a family of artisans. His father was a tailor and his mother a dressmaker. He showed an early talent for drawing,...

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