As her first ever solo exhibition opens in London, the illustrator talks about how her own children inspired her drawings, ...

Mary Priscilla Harriet Parke, was a pupil of landscape painter Peter De Wint ... Burne-Jones, James Tissot, Edward Lear and Burne-Jones. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy and eventually ...

Over her career, she has sold 35 million books and has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal: first in 1969 for her work on Edward Lear’s The ... the flat [Suffolk] landscape and those enormous ...

Tennyson wrote an appreciation of Lear’s Journals of a Landscape Painter in Greece ... seeing for the first time Lear’s landscapes in an art gallery and simply assuming that they were the work of ...

Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1938) was the trailblazer. The acknowledged masterpiece is Vivien Noakes’s Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer (1968), though I think Jenny Uglow’s recent Mr Lear: ...

Early naturalists like Audubon or Edward Lear (a great natural history artist ... And they’re in an Egyptian landscape. So, the glossy and the sacred are fighting. The sacred and the profane are ...

In the 1980s, as Brazil restored its democratic regime, Oscar Niemeyer returned from exile. Confronted with a country where the population had spread to the outskirts of cities, Niemeyer continued ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened show at a museum outside New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention.

In a transformative donation, the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a gift from the Aso O. Tavitian Foundation of 331 works of art. On view through October 28, a new ...

More than 8,000 black-and-white images, amounting to a collection of some of the finest early English landscape photography that is ‘of national significance’, has been acquired by Historic England ...