Kano Sansetsu’s painting of an ancient plum tree is a lesson in how to endure The great Kano School, which dominated official Japanese painting for 350 years, was in its golden period in 1646, when ...

They may not be quite as famous as his sunflowers or self-portraits, but Vincent van Gogh’s olive-tree paintings still represent an important entry in his sprawling oeuvre of more than 2,000 works.

A revelatory show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reunites 24 paintings of cypresses and unchains them from their somber associations. 1889 was a very good year for van Goghs: The artist produced ...

While many art buffs travel at length to see Vincent van Gogh’s paintings up close, one grasshopper got a front row seat — for over a century. This week it was revealed by Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

In his new HBO program “Painting with John,” John Lurie wants you to know that he knows the comparisons to Bob Ross are inevitable, but he’s there to quickly subvert them. “None of the trees in my ...

It’s a law of nature: every year brings a gust of theories about Vincent van Gogh. His life has been scrutinized for so long that we seem to have all the information, and nowhere near enough. Sturdy ...

Mitchell Newberry has published research on tree branching supported by University of Michigan and University of New Mexico. He volunteers with Cool It Burque, a tree-planting group in Albuquerque, NM ...

Littleton, Taylor D. and Maltby Sykes, "Advancing American Art: painting, politics, and cultural confrontation at mid-century," Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1989, no. 17. "Advancing ...

"The Olive Trees," on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, is a companion piece to the world-famous "The Starry Night," painted at the same time. Robert Gerhardt / The Museum of Modern Art, ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

A trio of Bob Ross paintings sold for more than $600,000 in a Los Angeles charity auction Monday to help support public television programming that is struggling after government funding was slashed.