Joseph Cotes, “Portrait of Joseph and his Brother John Gulston” (1754), pastel on blue paper, mounted on canvas (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) LOS ANGELES — ...

NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross between chalk and pure powdered pigments — pastels ...

Grafton >> Animal portrait, pastel artist Josee Severino will exhibit her enchanting portraitures at Hunter Gallery of Fine Art for the month of August. A special reception for its new artist for the ...

An exhibition at Kent State University will look back at another artistic side of musical legend Bob Dylan. “Face Value,” a collection of 12 large Dylan portraits drawn in pastel will run Thursday, ...

Case Antiques describes the piece as “pastel on wove paper bust-length portrait of a bearded man with vibrant blue eyes and piercing stare.” “The penetrating stare and psychological intensity of this ...

Since the 18th century, the works of Maurice Quentin de la Tour have been highly prized by connoisseurs of Old Master painting and largely ignored by everyone else. Part of the reason for his ...

Pastel is a paradoxical medium. It is the most fragile of materials—essentially dust rubbed on a surface (usually paper). It is easily disturbed and impossible to fix without altering its character.

In order to make large portraits of European elites, artists had to literally piece together pieces of paper, circumventing the limitations of their medium. LOS ANGELES — Eighteenth-century portraits ...