5 Monet paintings to change the light in a room
Riviera blues, poppy fields and winter lilac. Five ways into Claude Monet’s world, with a whole artwork to explore at every stop.
Art & Artists
Look closely at paintings and the people behind them. Explore artists, movements and the stories hidden in familiar and unexpected works of art.
Tissot's July: how to look at a summer portrait from 1878
A white dress, yellow ribbons and the sea behind a striped awning: a close reading of James Tissot's Seaside (July: Specimen of a Portrait).
Carl Larsson and Scandinavian art: 14 prints for a Nordic home
Carl Larsson’s Sundborn watercolours, the Skagen painters, Hammershøi’s quiet rooms and the folk tales of Swedish art: fourteen pictures from the north.
Wedding gifts for couples: 12 artworks to start a home
The first real art on a couple’s walls: Monet’s river, Homer’s coast, Hokusai’s Fuji, a Renoir for the kitchen and a portrait of their first house. Twelve wedding gifts that will outlast the toaster.
Autumn paintings: 14 works in fall colour
Golden woods by George Inness, a Hudson River October, chrysanthemums from Renoir to Hokusai and a harvest table or two: fourteen pictures for the season.
Gifts for a mother-in-law: 12 artworks she will actually hang
Flowers by Van Gogh, Renoir and Hokusai, gardens by Morisot, and her own dog or cat painted like a Manet: twelve safe and lovely choices for the woman who is hardest to buy for.
Vintage botanical prints: 12 plants and flowers from the archive
Illuminated flowers, florilegium plates, hand-coloured engravings and a few surprises: twelve botanical pictures from four centuries, each ready to print.
Gifts for art lovers: 15 museum masterpieces to give
Friedrich’s wanderer, Van Gogh’s irises, Seurat’s Grande Jatte, Hilma af Klint’s Ten Largest: fifteen masterpieces from the world’s great museums, each as a print that would make an art lover’s day.
Dutch Golden Age paintings: 15 masterworks from Rembrandt to Potter
Rembrandt, Hals, Steen, de Hooch, Ruisdael and Kalf: fifteen pictures from the century when a small country of merchants painted itself better than anyone before.