Dan Robbins, who tried to make “every man a Rembrandt” with his invention of paint-by-number kits in the 1950s, a phenomenon that delighted hobbyists and rankled critics by inviting amateurs ...

The 'Star Wars' and 'Magpie' actress faces the seas in Joachim Ronning's portrait of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

When the landmark Abstract Expressionism show “ The New American Painting ” arrived at London’s Tate gallery in 1959, it featured work by 17 artists: all of them American, and 16 of them men ...

A commemorative print from 2008 of Mr. Robbins’s original paint-by-numbers creation in 1950, an abstract still-life.

A man cut “Woman-Ochre,” a 1955 abstract painting by Willem de Kooning, from its frame, rolled it up and walked out with it, the university said in a news release.

Daisy Ridley faces waves in 'Young Woman and the Sea,' Joachim Ronning's portrait of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel.