American Art

Edwin Austin Abbey (DailyArt Magazine)

Richard III by Edwin Austin Abbey
Edwin Austin Abbey, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne, 1897. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery.

When I visited the Yale University Art Gallery this winter, I completely fell in love with American artist Edwin Austin Abbey’s dramatic painting of a scene from Shakespeare’s Richard III (see above). After viewing his equally-spectacular King Lear painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing, I was inspired to write an article about Abbey for DailyArt Magazine. Click here to read “The American Artist Who Loved Everything British: Edwin Austin Abbey’s Shakespeare Paintings”.


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