British painter John Craxton, who lived from 1922 until 2009, is known for his iconic depiction of his beloved second ...

While France was celebrating Monet and Renoir, a remarkable Impressionist school was flourishing across the Channel. Combining both homage and dissent, these artists forged their own path, adapting ...

While you wait in the virtual queue for “Manet/Degas,” it’s worth a stop by “British Vision: 1700-1900,” a new rotation of works on paper from the Met’s collection. The Department of Drawings and ...

For all the world attention they get, British abstract expressionists might as well be painting on another planet. The British public might even suspect that it’s one of those things that isn’t done.

Though Britain has had more than its share of internationally renowned sculptors in recent years, first-class English painters have been few and far between. Of those who have come forward, nearly all ...

Leading contemporary painter George Shaw grew up in the 1970s and 1980s on the Tile Hill “council estate,” a government-developed suburban community for the working-class Briton — not unlike American ...

J. M. W. Turner, Vesuvius in Eruption, between 1817 and 1820; watercolor, gum, scraping out on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Courtesy the Yale Center for British Art The ...

Rachel Jones' "SMIIILLLLEEEE," from 2021, is among the works featured in “A Room Hung With Thoughts: British Painting Now” at the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas. Chad Redmon / Courtesy of the ...

IT has been said that our painters merely continue tendencies that have had their origin in Europe, and just as English and French painters are abandoning theories which they have exhausted, we are ...