Fresh and challenging, Smith’s art sits on the cusp between eccentric abstraction and automated sci-fi figures, and contributes to Chicago’s dense art history.

This is just one of the remarkable portraits by John Thomas Smith collected together  in a large handsome volume entitled “Vagabondiana,” published in 1817, that I discovered in the collection of the ...

Auguste Joseph Peiffer was a French 19th Century sculptor who was born in 1832. How much does an Auguste Joseph Peiffer cost? Auguste Joseph Peiffer's work has been offered at auction multiple times, ...