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 ...

French artist Edgar Degas drew, painted and sculpted. Although he relished a wide range of subjects, his best-known works depict ballet dancers.

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 ...

Exhausted and disillusioned after fighting in the Franco-Prussian War, young French artist Edgar Degas, like so many young men before and after him, retreated to New Orleans to let off some steam and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harriet Scott Chessman’s novel, “The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas,” begins by showing us the artist from the perspective of his Creole sister-in-law, Estelle “Tell” Musson Balfour Degas. We follow ...

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 ...

HOUSTON — For today’s art, does Edgar Degas matter? That’s the question at the heart of a large and fascinating retrospective exhibition newly opened at the Museum of Fine Arts here. The unsurprising ...

Edgar Degas spent just five months in New Orleans from October 1872 to March 1873, many years before he became a famous French Impressionist painter. Though his stay here was brief, locals still share ...