Snapshots of America at the turn of the 20th century. These images are uniquely colorized through the process of photochrome printing, a print technique for adding color to ink-based paper reproductions of black and white photographs.

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri was a Baroque, Italian figure painter widely known in his time and after his death as Guercino, which translates “the squinter,” a nickname he accrued from being cross-eyed. Some artists and historians believe that Guercino’s co…

Cristina de Middel began a career in photojournalism in her home country, Spain, as a staff photographer for a newspaper. Filled with wanderlust and striving to search for, what she has described as “the drama of life,” de Middel traveled frequently on her…

Born in Paris, Paul Sérusier studied at an alternative liberal art academy, where he met a group of Symbolists. Working closely with his friends, Paul Gauguin, Maurice Denis, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard, Sérusier employed bold colors and flattened…

Stunning photography from the depths of the ocean blue. Featuring images of mystical and spine-chilling creatures, as captured by Jeremy Bishop, Kyle Loftus, and more.

Grant Wood, best known as the hand behind American Gothic, was one of the preeminent figures of American Regionalism, a movement that emerged in America’s Midwest and Deep South during the Great Depression. His works translate the everyday, American farm…

A collection by the preeminent American Regionalist, Grant Wood.

As part of our “Why Is This Famous?” series, we covered the backstory of Wood’s most well-known work, American Gothic. Read it at my.meural.com/editorial/31….

In our series Why Is This Famous?, we aim to answer the unanswerable: How does a work actually enter the public consciousness?

Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish, originally published in 1719, with a second edition in 1754, lays claim to being the earliest known publication of color images of fish—in this case, those of the waters of the East Indies. This wonderful…