“I long for the old forgotten moods,” the painter Charles Burchfield once wrote, “for endless summer days spent in the Ohio hills … for the old burning optimism—for the joy…Continue Reading →
By the 1990s, Marilyn Pappas was making textiles depicting ancient Greco-Roman sculptures of goddess. “I felt that even in their broken, battered state—they wouldn’t have a head, or one breast…Continue Reading →
The sad little girl with tears on her ebony face was crafted around 1922 by Leo Moss. It’s said the African-American carpenter and handyman from Macon, Georgia, began making dolls…Continue Reading →