There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in ...

Spend a winter afternoon discovering nearly 60 pieces by Rousseau at the Barnes, whose “A Painter’s Secrets” exhibit, held in ...

Lions, and tigers, and bare women. These are some of the figures in the iconic jungle pictures by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910), a self-taught French artist who strove to realize financial and critical ...

Greatest amateur painter who ever lived, a retired French customs inspector named Henri Rousseau, had his biggest U.S. exhibition ever, at the Chicago Art Institute last fortnight. In Manhattan, 30 ...

Don’t miss these exhibitions showcasing Surrealism’s dream logic, Henri Rousseau’s modern imagination and Alexander Calder’s ...

One hundred years ago this spring, Henri Rousseau exhibited his paintings: Two of them were shown at the Salon des Champs-Elysees in Paris, where they promptly were slashed by visitors. People who had ...

Tax collector-turned-Post-Impressionist artist, Henri Rousseau was a self-taught painter known for his Naive works. Though it took time for his style, which was often described as simplistic and ...

In 1898, Henri Rousseau, the so-called father of "naive art", wrote to the mayor of his home town, Laval, in north-west France, offering a gargantuan painting for sale. The Sleeping Gypsy, measuring 1 ...

He was once regarded as a bit of a joke. A self-taught "Sunday painter" who couldn't do hands and who was laughed at by other artists for his amateurish technique. But a century after he died ...

At first glance the passionately colored mandala-like images of June Edmonds and the softly nuanced black-and-white drawings on photographs by A.M. Rousseau couldn’t appear to be more distant from one ...