I’ve been engaged for several months with the “back to basics” art movement known as classical realism. (You can read my latest post here). The first article I wrote on the subject appeared in the ...

Even away on my roadtrip, I could hear the rolling thunder of this bomb that Maureen Mullarkey of the New York Sun dropped on Jacob Collins’s nudes at Hischl and Adler. Realism is not a style but a ...

Teacups and saucers neatly stacked on a kitchen counter. Golden sunlight streaming through a hallway window. A blue hydrangea cutting resting in a paper cup. These are among the morsels of beauty ...

The international upswing in traditional realist painting — what's now being called "classical realism" — has a new face in Vermont: that of Emilie Lee. The 35-year-old returned home to Vermont last ...

As a “classical realist” who creates luminous landscapes, timeless still lifes and lifelike portraits, Jacob Collins operates outside the art world that usually receives media coverage. His work isn’t ...