Understanding control and layering is what truly unlocks the potential of soft pastels in portrait drawing, and this artwork ...

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history. Artists make the best curators.

Joseph Cotes, “Portrait of Joseph and his Brother John Gulston” (1754), pastel on blue paper, mounted on canvas (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...