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An iconic American flag painting by Jasper Johns sold for $36 million in New York on Veterans Day, setting an auction record for the artist. The painting was ...

Rivera sat behind a desktop monitor in his basement, but you may have missed him if your eyes were drawn immediately to the American flag and enormous painting of the Redskins logo displayed on ...

Major Bill Traylor painting that previously belonged to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright is gifted to the American Folk Art Museum ...

The 19th century saw the rise of the posthumous portrait, when in photographs and paintings, people preserved the faces of departed loved ones.

Jasper Johns painted 'Flag' in encaustic, mixing pigment with hot wax just as the ancient Greeks did thousands of years before him.

Lautenberg bought the painting in 1986. It sold at Christie’s New York last night for nearly $4.2 million as part of the auction house’s sale of the late senator’s art collection.

Instead you’ll find a strong cross-section of folk art’s various forms; from carvings to paintings to sewn crafts.

The American Folk Art Museum is celebrating its 60th anniversary with the acquisition of 40 works donated by Laura and Richard Parsons.

The American Folk Art Museum in New York has announced a transformative gift of 40 works in honour of the institution’s 60th anniversary, including striking examples by the self-taught African ...