The artist's ceramic pieces combined practicality with aesthetics. Now, seven of his hand-painted dishes are heading to the ...

He began to draw what he saw, and by age 12 had won a blue ribbon at the 1933 Iowa ... He couldn’t just slap a dead fish on a table and paint away. They had to be caught, kept alive and placed ...

If ever there’s an artwork that that provokes such dead-end questions, it’s Pollock’s Blue poles. Those questions don’t lead us to anything new or open up our understanding of art.

Buoyed by success at the fairs, Barclay soon founded Blue Fish Clothing out of her parents’ garage. More than 30 years later, Blue Fish — now based in Fairfield — has sold hundreds of ...