WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar Degas. She wants the world to understand that he painted so much more than dancers and laundresses and did so in a variety of ...

If the name Edgar Degas brings to mind Impressionist paintings of ballerinas, an upcoming summer exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) might expand your understanding of the artist’s ...

Rightly or not-quite-accurately, New Orleans has long claimed Edgar Degas as one of its own. Much has been made of the 19th-century French painter’s Creole relatives in the United States; his mother’s ...

Every picture tells a story – but that’s not the way Edgar Degas looked at it. The Impressionist painter, known mainly for his pictures of ballerinas, was more interested in the form of his subjects, ...

Works by Ben Nicholson, Vanessa Bell and Bill Brandt were also among works given to the nation in 2024-25 to settle £39.3m ...

A pastel by Edgar Degas led £59.7m worth of artworks into UK public collections last year, as donors used government-backed ...

The Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington is known primarily for always staying the same. That’s intentional: The house’s designer and owner, Theodate Pope Riddle, stipulated in her will that nothing ever ...

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Reporting from Washington — In 1877, when he was 43, the French impressionist Edgar Degas began stopping by the studio of the 33-year-old American Mary Cassatt and offering her a point or two that ...

Exhausted and disillusioned after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, young French artist Edgar Degas, like so many young men before and after him, retreated to New Orleans to let off some steam and ...