A rare oil painting with handwritten note by late artist and TV host Bob Ross is being auctioned this week in Towson.

(CNN) — Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life ...

Grouping of fire paintings is “a meditative space” for some, museum says. And Cheech Marin talks about the two Malibu fires ...

A revelatory show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reunites 24 paintings of cypresses and unchains them from their somber associations. 1889 was a very good year for van Goghs: The artist produced ...

Do artists and scientists see the same thing in the shape of trees? As a scientist who studies branching patterns in living things, I’m starting to think so. Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century ...

A new tribute to the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 14 lunar landing mission has grown out of a collaboration between two artists and a touch of moon dust, of sorts. "Touched by the Moon," a new ...

What makes a tree a tree? Or rather, why can we recognize trees in even quite abstract depictions when they are so varied in nature? Researchers have found a clue in the branches, and used math to ...

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live ...

The last year and a half has been stressful, by almost any measure. And while his dulcet voice and invocation of “happy little trees” often is used as a punchline, it’s hard to deny that enjoying an ...

Award-winning painter Celia Smith is pictured in her Lawrence studio on Aug. 27, 2025. At 96, Celia Smith has had more time than most to look at the world. For nearly a century, she has lived a life ...