Peddler Selling Balloons (1915) by Boris Kustodiyev on display at the Michael Castle as part of a Russian Museum exhibition entitled Scenes of the 17th-early 20th century Russian Life .

In the early 20th century, J. C. Leyendecker rose to prominence as an illustrator whose work was seen everywhere from soap advertisements to the cover of the "Saturday Evening Post." His drawings ...

Many early-twentieth-century artists, especially from French and German avant-garde groups, such as Les Fauves and Der Blaue Reiter, freed of the concept that the goal of art was to reproduce ...

A signature style of the early 20th century “Ask three historians to define the term Art Deco, and you’ll likely get three varying answers,” design writer Arricca Elin Sansone said last year ...

Rather than the ornate excesses of its early 20th-century aesthetic, the modern take leans more into minimalist interior design — simplified floral motifs, delicate metalwork, and a refined ...

In the novel, E.L. Doctorow makes characters out of J. Pierpont Morgan, Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington and others, sometimes hewing to the historical record and sometimes going his own way.