Famous Paintings
Eugene de Blaas’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Venetian girls at the well, on the balcony, and at the washtub: ten paintings by the great charmer of nineteenth-century Venice.
Fine Art America
Photography
Norman Rockwell's Best-Known Covers
Nine images that fixed how twentieth-century America pictured itself — and the working method, the neighbors and the market behind them.
Famous Paintings
Rosa Bonheur’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The nineteenth century’s greatest painter of animals — horses, cattle, stags and lions, seen by an artist who knew them intimately.
Famous Paintings
John Trumbull’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
The soldier who became the painter of the American Revolution — ten works that gave the founding generation its face.
Famous Paintings
Leonetto Cappiello’s Ten Most Iconic Posters
A green devil, a red zebra and a woman in a dress of flames: the ten posters that made Cappiello the father of modern advertising.
Photography
Vintage Travel Posters
Sixty years of railway, liner and airline advertising — the designers, the printing methods, the standard sizes and how to spot a reproduction.
Famous Paintings
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen’s Ten Most Iconic Posters and Paintings
The black cat of Montmartre, the chocolate poster, the laundresses at night: ten works by the great chronicler of working Paris.
Famous Paintings
Helen Hyde’s Ten Most Beautiful Prints
The American artist who learned Japanese woodblock printing in Tokyo — ten of her most charming and beautifully colored prints.
Photography
Great Album-Cover Photography
Ten minutes on a stepladder, a freezing street in the Village, a bass being destroyed — how the twelve-inch square produced its own photographic tradition.
Famous Paintings
Archibald Thorburn’s Ten Most Beautiful Bird Paintings
Snipe in the rushes, peregrines above the sea, ptarmigan in the snow: ten watercolors by Britain’s greatest painter of birds.
Famous Paintings
Maria Sibylla Merian’s Ten Most Beautiful Natural History Illustrations
Caterpillars, pineapples, and a caiman fighting a snake: ten plates from the naturalist who drew insects as living stories.
Photography
Vintage Baseball Art and Photography
Where the images actually come from — tobacco cards, glass plates, wire photos and lithographs — and how to tell one era from another.