At the Frick, an Exploration of Rococo Sumptuousness, Etched in Pastel A new show sets the contemporary work of Nicolas Party in dialogue with a portrait by 18th-century Venetian artist Rosalba ...

Partly thanks to Carriera’s skill and clever marketing, pastel portraits became one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo era.

The Swiss artist Nicolas Party is both the subject and curator of Pastel, an extraordinary exhibition examining the under-appreciated, fugitive medium and its history.

The U.K.'s historic Tatton Park estate rediscovered a pastel portrait by famed Rococo artist Rosalba Carriera with an assist from the Frick.

PSC was founded in 1994 by a group of six artists as a way to promote pastel artists, the soft pastel medium and to encourage the appreciation and art of pastel painting. PSC has become a far-reaching ...

The pastel was a portrait of her grandfather Ralph Lawrence Oakley as a boy, holding the hand of his grandmother. Drawn in the impressionist style in pastel on tan paper, the figures appeared ...

Local artists with works in the Arkansas Pastel Society’s seventh national exhibition at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in Little Rock include Anita Bogard of Royal, from left, Carole ...

Mary Liz Ingram Art A self-taught pastel artist and art instructor, Mary Liz Ingram creates true-to-life portraits of pets in both pastel and watercolor.

Combining a love of animals and a passion for art led Katharine Skorka to begin a successful career as a professional pet ...

A local organization supporting a 15th century art form was established in 2015 to bring more awareness to an old and often overlooked medium.