Emily Cox is a PhD candidate in history of art at Yale University.
As the art of the Gilded Age undergoes a revival, what does this say about our own hopes and fears?
It was the painter’s misfortune to be surrounded by writers whose accounts of her have been too dominant for too long
Self-portraits and depictions of family and friends build a picture of the ‘Scream’ artist as insider rather than outsider, more savvy than angsty
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In the writer’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too
Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye
