A crackling collection of experimental prints by William Blake resurrects the English poet-painter in all his radical frenzy, and foretells the limits of political art.

Watercolor, over traces of black chalk. Purchased with the assistance of the Fellows with the special support of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne and Mr. Paul Mellon, 1949; 1949.4:1 William Blake ...

Blake’s works are very, very delicate — many are watercolors — and to expose them to light at all is a risky business. The staging of William Blake’s Universe in other respects is very good.

The British government on Wednesday temporarily blocked the export of 19 watercolors by visionary artist William Blake.

A major exhibition on William Blake's work, titled "William Blake: Visionary," is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles through Jan. 14, 2024.

Blake’s delicate and rarely shown watercolor prints are now on display at the Morgan Library in New York.

In 1795, William Blake (1757-1827) was given a commission to illustrate the poems of Edward Young (1681-1765). He produced 537 watercolors from which 43 were selected for engraving.

The first stanza of "The Tyger," a poem by the late-18th/early-19th century English Romantic poet, painter and printmaker William Blake published in 1794, is one of the most famous in the English ...

This post was updated Oct. 19 at 9:26 p.m. Visionary tales and texts are lighting up the Getty Center. On Monday night, the Getty Center unveiled the “William Blake: Visionary” exhibition to ...

They require closer attention than a big-screen movie epic, but there may be no works more powerfully current in their impact, more chillingly foreboding than William Blake’s “Illustrations of ...

Except in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., or the Tate Gallery in London, one would not expect to see an original work by William Blake, poet ...