In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette (1886), Edvard Munch’s By the Deathbed (1893) and Hugo Simberg’s The Garden ...

14 x 11.12 in. (35.6 x 28.2 cm.) Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, "Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make Believe," May 31-September 2, 1974; Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, ...

For me, a dose of bright art is the best way to thwart the gloom of Western Washington’s short, dark days. These seven luminous exhibits will do the trick. The paintings of Northwest artist Liz ...