Chinese researchers have successfully restored two shell paintings from the Warring States period (475-221 BC) in north China's Hebei Province, according to a recent research article published in the ...

More than 2,000 years after an artist in ancient China picked up a brush and a clam shell, researchers are getting the first glimpse at what they actually painted. Clams were eaten by people of the ...

NPR offers a correction to a piece earlier in the week in which we referred to the mollusk in the famous "Birth of Venus" painting by Botticelli as a clam shell. Now, a correction. On Tuesday, we ran ...

Shell artist Jin A'shan works on his peacock shell painting at his studio in Dalian, a coastal city in Northeast China's Liaoning province. [Photo provided to China Daily] Sitting in front of a ...

"Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: natural affinities," New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 2008, pg. 74. Lynes, Barbara Buhler, "Georgia O'Keeffe: catalogue raisonne," New Haven: Yale University Press, ...