NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross between chalk and pure powdered pigments — pastels ...

Ambassadors and park rangers tell visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial repeatedly, “It’s all about the heroes of Flight 93.” Those would be the men and ...

The new show focuses on the famed Impressionist’s works on paper. Were they masterpieces? Less than? That is for visitors to ...

In a Grand Rapids, Minn., art gallery, an exhibit of 22 chalk pastel portraits by artist Mary Myers Corwin depicts the many faces of man's best friend. Their sparkling eyes and noble expressions of ...

When you walk into a banquet room at the Maple Lane Country Club, your eye is immediately drawn to a portrait hanging above the piano. The subjects are the late Sam and Charlene Stillson, who had both ...

It didn’t hit Cheryl Peterson until she saw all 32 portraits leaning side by side against two adjoining walls in an art gallery on the campus of Virginia Tech. Her chalk pastel portraits of each of ...