Britany Salsbury

Degas and the Laundress offers an exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates on art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century. Edgar Degas’s depictions of Parisian laundresses are some of the famed Impressionist’s most revolutionary works. In paintings, drawings, and prints throughout his long career, Degas emphasized the strenuousness of women’s labour...

Andrew Wyeth's expressive watercolour practice and his unique artistic vision Beginning in the 1930s, Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) built a monumental reputation for his watercolours—described by one critic at the time as having a spectacular freedom. In the medium, Wyeth depicted the people and places that surrounded him in rural Pennsylvania and Maine in expressive and evocative compositions. Though he later...