After two years in storage, the 37-foot-long early 19th-century scroll will be on public display for the first time at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut. This object known as the Lucknow Scroll is part of the exhibition Painters, Ports and Profit: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850 (until … Read more
In October 1908, 68-year-old French Impressionist painter Claude Monet arrived in Venice with his second wife Alice. It was his first and only time in the city, but the experience left an unforgettable impression. The city’s stunning canals and ornate architecture have inspired more than 100 works of art. More than 20 of Monet’s Venice … Read more
Jacqueline Benard and her husband, Kenji Umeda, moved to Phoenix in the mid-1970s. They met several years ago while studying sculpture in Carrara, Italy. The Valley became the home of their family and creative life until Umeda’s death in 2019. Benard always knew there was a chapter in Umeda’s life even before they met, particularly … Read more