The American artist Richard Estes (born 1932) was one of the leading realist painters of urban genre scenes in the latter half of the 20th century. Richard Estes was born on May 14, 1932, in Kewanee, Ill., and received art training at the School of the...

REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY PALAZZO MAGNANI March 24-May 27 Curated by Alessandro Parmiggiani and Guillermo Solana It used to seem obvious that the Photorealist work of Richard Estes (boni 1932) was in tune with the major artistic currents of the 1960s:...

Princeton professor and historian John Wilmerding is best known for his writings about 19th century American painters Frederic Church, Winslow Homer and Fitz Henry Lane. Last year, Wilmerding shook the art world (or at least its filing system) by declaring Lane's middle name was...