Tag: Father

  • Chicana Painter Criselda Vasquez Says ICE Detained Her Father

    News Vasquez was inspired by her Mexican immigrant parents to paint her celebrated 2017 portrait “The New American Gothic.” Criselda Vasquez’s parents posing in front of the artist’s painting “The New American Gothic” (2017) (photo courtesy the artist) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained the father and portrait muse of California-based Chicana painter Criselda read more

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  • Scholar Argues Portrait of Albrecht Dürer’s Father in National Gallery Is Authentic

    In a new catalogue raisonné, scholar Christof Metzger argues that The Painter’s Father (1497), a painting in the collection of London’s National Gallery, is in fact an authentic work by Albrecht Dürer. The Painter’s Father, gifted to King Charles I of England in 1636, has long been thought to be a copy made decades after read more

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