The Barnes Foundation offers a comprehensive yet non-chronological overview of his oeuvre, inviting visitors to explore the ...

The Barnes Foundation has a world premiere exhibition from a self-taught French painter who never gave up on his work despite ...

A new exhibition freshly contextualizes many artworks in the light of his personal story, while conservators conducted ...

His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than ...

The tradition of treating Rousseau as someone who's lucky just to be here lives on—but the work speaks for itself. "Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," 2025. The Barnes Foundation, installation view ...

In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative portraits, landscapes and jungle scenes, submitting them to Paris’ ...

One of the most famous stories regarding Henri Rousseau goes something like this: Picasso, after finding Rousseau’s large-scale Portrait of a Woman (1895) for sale as canvas reuse, hosted a roaring ...

Let’s ride a tiger! Definitely not! We should never try to ride a tiger, and Henri Rousseau does not suggest it either! It would be horrible (especially for the person I think).

In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative portraits, landscapes and jungle scenes, submitting them to Paris’ ...