A new exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story, while conservators conducted revelatory technical studies.

The Barnes Foundation offers a comprehensive yet non-chronological overview of his oeuvre, inviting visitors to explore the ...

In the jungle, the mighty painted jungle by famed French artist Henri Rousseau, neither man nor beast sleeps day or night. A self-taught artist, Rousseau’s developed a unique artistic style that often ...

His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than ...

“I never saw such poverty as I saw in Rousseau’s studio,” recalled the artist Max Weber, one of the first patrons of the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Having retired early from a job ...

Sunday — the last lazy summer Sunday before school begins and political campaigns get serious and the Redskins start to lose real games — the family and I went to the National Gallery to see the most ...

In The Neverending Story: Part II, curated by Bob Colacello, the Vito Schnabel Gallery continues to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement launched in Paris in 1924, with the French poet ...

THE thing about Henri Rousseau is that he never seems to fit. What to make of a self-taught artist who worked as a clerk in a customs office, took up painting in middle age and conceived of himself as ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for his clumsy compositions and awkward perspectives. But if he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened, writes Alastair ...

Each year art students from the drawing and painting classes at St. Johns County Center for the Arts at St. Augustine High School create a traveling exhibition mural based on the work of a famous ...