Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Cloud Box," 1966, by Peter Alexander, was on view in the 2011 exhibition "Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting ...

For Peter Alexander, the moment that helped change the direction of his art arrived after a mundane session of ding repair on his surfboard in the 1960s. He had poured some resin into a paper cup to ...

Francesca Alexander, "Charity" (1861), oil on canvas (© 1985 Sotheby's Inc; photo courtesy Sotheby's Inc.) English art critic John Ruskin once wrote that she possessed “a quite heavenly gift of genius ...