Scribner’s Magazine, launched in 1887, is credited with being the first magazine to include color illustrations.

Does writing, painting, creating through adversity help the creator process their discomfort?

The author discusses Gilded Age society, family loyalty, and the enduring power of art

Does sharing during the beginning stages of the creative process benefit a project?

This exhibition explores aspects of the lived experience of being an artist in New York City during the 1870s and 1880s, an era of rapid socio-economic change.

“I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.”

The Bloomsbury Group was an informal set of friends brought together by common interests in art, literature, philosophy, and social and political theory.

When improvements in printing technology made it possible to add color to lithography and increase the size of the printing base, commercial possibilities ballooned

Ostrich plumes were perennial favorites, and, despite their size, they were one of the more sustainable choices,

Some of the greatest representational artists of the twentieth century were illustrators for books and magazine publications.

“When you think of Gertrude Stein’s salons or Paris Review salons, it was a great exchange of ideas…”

The opulence and splendor of the Gilded Age can easily be found across the city if you know where to look!

Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 1895.