Have I ever seen a more sumptuous unmade bed in my life? This is the first thought I have when I see Double Bed, a recent painting by the artist Catherine Murphy, during a December visit to Peter ...

The sublime in nature as seen on an epic ... In this once-lost, now wildly popular and still magisterial painting, his most famous Rückenfigur (someone seen from behind whose gazing posture ...

Friedrich issued his own dictum: “A painter should paint not only what he sees before ... who tucked the sublime between layers of colour, and, more presciently still, to Mark Rothko’s glowing ...

“Amy Sherald: American Sublime” borrows its subtitle from a poem by Elizabeth Alexander concerning the omission of depictions of slavery in 19th-century landscape painting. What put Ms ...