The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

Cesar Legaspi was a 20th-century Filipino painter best ... traditional representations of the human figure to more Modernist visual languages. Born on April 2, 1917 in Manila, Philippines, he studied ...

He painted well-known figures like school principals ... the world saw Black cultural life in the early to mid-20th-century. "Hardrick is painting members of the Black community in Indianapolis.

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) is recognized as a key figure in the modernization of Chinese art in the 20th century. Trained in China and France, he sought to bring reforms to the home art scene and art ...