Spend a winter afternoon discovering nearly 60 pieces by Rousseau at the Barnes, whose “A Painter’s Secrets” exhibit, held in ...

In the jungle, the mighty painted jungle by famed French artist Henri Rousseau, neither man nor beast sleeps day or night. A self-taught artist, Rousseau’s developed a unique artistic style that often ...

“I never saw such poverty as I saw in Rousseau’s studio,” recalled the artist Max Weber, one of the first patrons of the self-taught painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Having retired early from a job ...

There is a tremendous patience in Henri Rousseau (b. 1844), on view as part of a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. His Rendezvous in the Forest (1889) meticulously reproduces ...

In The Neverending Story: Part II, curated by Bob Colacello, the Vito Schnabel Gallery continues to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the movement launched in Paris in 1924, with the French poet ...

In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative portraits, landscapes and jungle scenes, submitting them to Paris’ ...

THE thing about Henri Rousseau is that he never seems to fit. What to make of a self-taught artist who worked as a clerk in a customs office, took up painting in middle age and conceived of himself as ...

The self-taught painter Henri Rousseau was mocked for his clumsy compositions and awkward perspectives. But if he had been trained, modern art as we know it might never have happened, writes Alastair ...