Art Gwen John’s Portraits of the “New Woman” Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris shows the nature of her dogged opposition: how she fought back, and won, in her own way.

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface.

Centuries after Jan van Eyck painted The Arnolfini Portrait many unanswered abound about this masterpiece of the Northern Renaissance.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939,” highlighting the myriad ways that American women contributed to the city’s vibrant ...

Truitt lays bare the challenges she faced after her divorce in 1971: raising three children, putting dinner on the table and ...

Three new art books feature female subjects of every shape and hue from all over the world, doing the things that women have historically done — and also the things that men have historically done.

The Nivaagaard Collection in Denmark has located a woman, who, for nearly 200 years, has been missing from a 17th-century family portrait.

“These portraits communicate a palpable sense of each woman’s strength, poise and individuality,” exhibition curator and senior curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery Ann ...

The second important event of London's social season took place last week with the annual Royal Academy exhibition in Burlington House.* The elderly, well-bred gentlemen who pick the pictures ...

Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles.

Amy Sherald claims the museum was planning to cut a portrait of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition.