It’s not surprising that Frieda Hughes, 53, is given to dramatic gestures. Being born the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes is to be thrust into that role. Plath, the author of the ...

LOS ANGELES — As I walked through No Prior Art: Illustrations of Invention at the Los Angeles Public Library’s downtown Central Library, a small installation stopped me dead in my tracks. Through an ...

The French-American painter Mary Cassatt did not think much of Mother’s Day. She was more concerned with women’s suffrage, an issue she strongly supported and occasionally slipped into her paintings.

An 1851 ink-and-watercolor gift drawing titled A Type of Mother Hannah’s Pocket Handkerchief by Polly Jane Reed, a Shaker in New Lebanon, New York. Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, ...

Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

The complex relationship between mother and child is no easy thing to capture on canvas. For Mother’s Day, we asked five experts to share their favourite painting of a mother or maternal figure. 1.

Potter and artist Kaitlyn Miller, above, will team up with her mother, Martha Miller, for a show at the Foundry in Biddeford next month. Contributed/Kaitlyn Miller Local Maine-based artists Martha and ...