Articles

Eastman Johnson was raised in Maine in a family of eight children, and

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, but came to the United States with his family in 1832 and settled with them in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

RISD Museum conservator Ingrid Neuman discusses the challenges in caring for objects made from this ubiquitous material

Artist educator Aja Blanc gives tips and strategies on looking at art with children.

How a project designed to enhance pain management was born and made possible by the collaboration between RISD Museum and the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency.

John Steuart Curry's images of the circus provide us with an insider's look at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1930s.

Professor Jan Baker encouraged her letterpress class to become inspired by the Circus exhibition at the RISD Museum.

It's impossible to know exactly what happened in prehistory, but we archaeologists have excellent tools to help us.

A rare female artist, Diana Mantuana's engraving of Atilius Regulus in a Barrel plays an important role in the history of the practice of printmaking and its reception in Renaissance Italy.

A look at the graphic-design inspiration and challenges behind Circus.

Using a questionnaire, curator Peter Selz—and the artists he queried—helped define a movement.