Fernand Léger’s Les belles cyclistes (The Women Cyclists) depicts a group of four physically powerful women dressed in shorts and T-shirts at rest during a bicycle outing. The women stand or sit ...

Thomas Cole (American, b. England, 1801–1848), Aqueduct near Rome, 1832. Oil on canvas, 44 1/2 x 67 5/16 in. University purchase, Bixby Fund, by exchange, 1987 ...

Student educator Jay Buchanan considers how artists working in various artistic mediums have connected figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology to their own historical contexts.

Why do artists sometimes label their works "Untitled"? In this video Student Educator Lingran Zhang explores how the title of Untitled (Colored People Grid) by Carrie Mae Weems relates to the meaning ...

Allan McCollum’s Pam Beale is one in a series of “constructed paintings” begun in the late 1960s. The piece is composed of a series of three-inch-wide rectangular strips of torn and dyed canvas ...

Rebecca and John Voyles Chair of Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis Any building can be understood within larger patterns of thinking about its ...

Join Manel Errando, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, for a guided closer look at the Moon in Thomas Cole's 1832 painting Aqueduct near Rome.