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Detail from a self-portrait by Victoria Yeh
ARTS
Graduating seniors receive arts prizes
Published May 20, 2019
Victoria Yeh wins Louis Sudler Prize, and Julia Zimmerman wins the President's Commendation for Achievement in the Arts
Surreal painting shows a psychedelic take on the Last Supper
Surreal supper
Published Spring 2018
Richard Hagerty, A&S '73, has been a surrealist painter for more than 40 years / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A man stares seriously out from this portrait; he clasps his hands with interlaced fingers and bends his left hand backwards; his skin is in a gray tone; he wears a white tee shirt and a color hat topped with flowers
Visual art
Amy Sherald to speak at JHU
Published Oct 16, 2017
Baltimore artist known for striking portraits of African-Americans was recently commissioned to paint official portrait of Michelle Obama
Alumni profile
The art of the selfie
Published Dec 28, 2015
Celebrated painter, JHU alum Raoul Middleman has created a staggering 20,000 paintings, drawings over his 55-year career
Painting of Brooklyn Bridge with streetlights, cars, and taillights at dusk
Art Talk
An artist of textures
Published Oct 12, 2015
Jane Dickson employs unusual mediums such as sandpaper, Astroturf
An evolving museum
Published Nov 2013
Evergreen Museum exhibit shows off recent, promised gifts, including paintings by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Zelda Fitzgerald / Gazette
Minor news
Visual arts program becomes full academic minor
Published Sept 2013
Visual arts program becomes a full academic minor / Gazette
Artifact: Picturing the apocalypse
Published Summer 2013
Despite its title, the room-filling mural in Levering Hall doesn't depict Biblical end times / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Painter Lennart Anderson to speak at Johns Hopkins
Published Sept 12, 2012
He is regarded as one of the elder statesmen of American representational painting