Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.
Horace Pippin
When Artists Move from the Margins to the Center
The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.
American Artists’ Fraught Responses to the First World War
From critical to patriotic and everything in between, a vast exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts displays the full range of US artists’ reactions to World War I.
Happy Public Domain Day! From Stieglitz to Severini, 12 Artists Whose Work Is Now Copyright-Free
January 1 was Public Domain Day — here’s a look at artists whose work is leaving copyright behind this year (although not in the United States).