In 1930, Henri Matisse, one of the giants of 20th-Century art, found himself in a discouraging creative slump. At the age of 60, the painter had been living in Nice, France, for 13 years, after ...

How Matisse became a name in pottery 05:38. As an apprentice to a potter, what Alex Matisse discovered shaped him like clay itself. "When I walked in, I knew that this is what I was going to do ...

Henri Matisse used to paint on the roof of this Manhattan building when his youngest son, Pierre, lived there. There’s even a photograph of Matisse himself painting on the roof displayed in the ...

Sticks of Dynamite. To represent himself better, he took the brightest paints he could find and laid them on in exuberant stabs and slashes. His friend Derain called Matisse’s colors “so many ...

PHILADELPHIA — Civilization had a total breakdown in the 1930s, which also happened to be the decade when Henri Matisse became most himself. “Matisse in the 1930s,” a groundbreaking ...

Matisse’s advice to his Danish counterparts, that they must follow his lead and ground themselves in their national tradition, was not exactly genuine, for Matisse himself had looked at art beyond his ...

Leo said that it was he. But according to Matisse himself, “Mme. Michael Stein was the really intelligently sensitive member of the family. ...

When Alex Matisse founded East Fork Pottery, in Asheville, N.C., he didn't want to use the name of his great-grandfather, artist Henri Matisse. But after business took off, Alex decided it was ...

Matisse himself originally titled the picture nothing more than “Red Panel,” as though color and flatness were its true subject. That flat-talk has always been right, ...

Alex Matisse grew up in a family of acclaimed artists, but not until he took an after-school pottery class did he discover his own life’s path. Now his East Fork Pottery makes bowls, plates and ...