William Shew, c. 1874 carte de visite of Pet and Wella Anderson’s pencil portrait of Anthony van Dyke (all images courtesy Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern ...

In 1854, the consumptive Pre-Raphaelite Siddal was being treated by the homeopathic doctor James Garth Wilkinson, an important Swedenborgian translator and editor, a spiritualist, and a collector of ...

As museums and biennials revisit Surrealism, outsider practices and Indigenous cosmologies, a pattern emerges that suggests a renewed turn toward spirituality, mysticism and alternative knowledge ...

Before she became a celebrated spirit-painter, Georgiana Houghton was a regular séance-goer, holding hands at table-rapping meetings with some of the greatest bohemians of her age at dramatic events ...

In the 1950s, the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington created a book called The Milk of Dreams, filled with her drawings of chimeric, fanciful creatures—including a boy whose head becomes a house and ...