The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written ...

The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...

"I’m sorry. The lecture is completely sold out," a museum representative said. "Sold out! I thought the event was free!" a disappointed prospective attendee responded. Last Thursday, at the Harvard ...

The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibit of art books by Henri Matisse. The French artist created a number of these books in the latter part of his life in the 1930s and 1940s. Bechtler ...

Henri Matisse, “ Le cheval, l’écuyère, et le clown (The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown),” plate V of XX, from Jazz, 1947, Pochoir (stencil) on Arches paper, 16 3/4” x 25 3/5” (© 2015 Succession H.

When Paris galleries became suspect because of the Nazi occupation of France in the World War II, Matisse mounted his own exhibition at home in his studio and proposed to appeal directly to the public ...

ST. LOUIS — Are you near a window? Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out windows a lot. He saw colors. Hilary Spurling, in her great Matisse biography, reported that the French artist once ...

In the final decades of a prolific career, modern artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) took up book illustration. This exhibition celebrates our 2024 acquisition of Jazz, Matisse's 1947 artist book on the ...

Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Matisse with his collection of Kuba cloths and a Samoan tapa on the wall behind him, Villa La Rêve, Vence” (1944) (© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, image courtesy Museum ...

"I’m sorry. The lecture is completely sold out," a museum representative said. "Sold out! I thought the event was free!" a disappointed prospective attendee responded. Last Thursday, at the Harvard ...