When we meet Mary Cassatt in playwright Chris Ward’s new production, The Independents, playing now off Broadway at the Jerry Orbach Theater, she is at her studio awaiting a visit from Edgar Degas. A ...

If the name Edgar Degas brings to mind Impressionist paintings of ballerinas, an upcoming summer exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) might expand your understanding of the artist’s ...

Edgar Degas, “Factory Smoke (Fumées d’usines)” (1877–79), monotype on paper, plate: 4 11/16 x 6 5/16 inches, sheet: 5 13/16 x 6 13/16 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Elisha ...

X-ray of Edgar Degas sculpture, “Arabesque over Right Leg, Left Arm in Front” (all images courtesy Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) Edgar Degas, “Arabesque over the Right Leg, Left Arm in Front” (ca ...

"Jockeys in the Rain" by Edgar Degas, c.1883-1886 which will feature in the Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Age of William Burrell exhibition at at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. The 23 works ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar Degas. She wants the world to understand that he painted so much more than dancers and laundresses and did so in a variety of ...

Edgar Degas left his mark on New Orleans. The French Impressionist master, who lived here for a crucial six months in 1872 and 1873, created a few of his most famous works in the city, and often ...

PARIS -- French customs officers have found an impressionist painting by Edgar Degas stowed on a bus more than eight years after it was reported stolen. According to the BBC, the pastel painting, ...

Purdue University has accepted a major collection of sculptures by prominent French impressionist artist Edgar Degas as a donation from Chicago businessman Avrum Gray (ME ’56). The collection includes ...

If you’ve ever seen an Impressionist-era oil painting of a ballerina, it was probably done by Edgar Degas. In a decades-long career, more than half of the French painter’s work focused on dancers of ...

In her own glass case at the National Gallery of Art, Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,” is forever lost in her own thoughts, but she’s almost never alone. Little girls flock to the sculpture ...