"I never really considered that I had a career as an artist, more an avocation, I guess. It’s my main retirement activity,” Jesse Venable said, explaining how a lifetime of dabbling in art became a ...

The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and ...

(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are seeking to take control of five paintings - one valued at up to $50,000 - seized in one of Alaska's biggest wildlife-trafficking cases in recent years. Prosecutors ...