Bridgeman Images Blog

When Valentine’s cards made sense

Every February my kids’ teachers send me a long list of names: 50 classmates in total, in case my...

Pantone Colour of the year 2017: Greenery

Prepare for a fresh start with Pantone’s Colour of 2017: Greenery: 15-0343. Cardington,...

Bonfire Night: a brief social history, or why I’m staying in this year

Lewes, Bonfire Night / Dorling Kindersley/UIG / Bridgeman Images November 5th, 2010. A...

An “explosion of interest in modern and contemporary African art”

There has been a large focus on artists from Africa or of African descent happening in the last...

The Art of Independence Day

Celebrate the history of Fourth of July with over two centuries of all-American art. Summertime...

The woman behind the muse: Freud’s paintings of Caroline Blackwood

Lucian Freud’s moving paintings of his second wife are currently on show at Ordovas, London...

Bridgeman Studio Award: Some of our Shortlisted Picks

This year we have been overwhelmed by the number of phenomenal entries for the Bridgeman Studio...

Vintage bicycle posters

First printed around 1895, vintage bicycle posters originated in countries including France,...

1945: Celebrate! End of war in Europe

8 May 1945 was Victory in Europe (VE) Day, and it marked the formal conclusion of Hitler’s war....

Bridgeman Studio Award 2016 Podcast

You did know we were running a competition to design a cover for a major publisher, didn’t you?