Artist R.L. Lewis placed a blank 16-by-20-inch canvas on an easel and began to paint. First, he covered the entire surface in white. Then he added wide stripes of yellow, purple and orange to create a ...

For more than half a century, Hedy Pagremanski — perched on a folding chair and equipped with paintbrushes and an easel — painstakingly captured New York City’s architecture, street scenes and ...