In landscape figures the picturesque is too often sought without reference to the graceful; but to the discerning eye the graceful is an essential element of the picturesque.

HARTFORD — Thomas Cole was worried. He had left Pennsylvania for New Hampshire's White Mountains in the summer of 1827 on the advice of his patron, Daniel Wadsworth. Once there, the English-born ...

American landscape art featured in latest Wadsworth Atheneum exhibit By Tracey O’Shaughnessy, Staff Writer July 19, 2025 Frederic Church "Mountains of Ecuador," 1855 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ...

The New Taipei City Art Museum sits on reclaimed land where two rivers meet. The gently sloping site resembles an island amid streams, with views of mountains and waterways. The winning competition ...

Photograph of Chiura Obata teaching a children's art class at Tanforan Art School, 1942 / unidentified photographer. Chiura Obata papers, circa 1891-2000, 1942-1945.

As long as the image has scenery in it, then it is considered landscape art. Those who paint outside with the landscape in full view of them are using "plein air" the French term for "in the open ...

We are in the midst of a public art paradigm shift. Cities are eschewing monumental public art, in the urban planning and landscape architecture context, in favor of diffuse networks of creative ...

June 10 - September 7, 2003The work of Mu Xin (b. 1927), is, in part, a dialogue with the past masters of Chinese painting and, thus, with Chinese history in general. This dialogue is a key factor in ...

ENTERING ART WOLFE’S garden, perched on a bluff in West Seattle, is like stepping into a work of art — at once a painting and a performance. Wolfe, a world-renowned photographer, grew up in ...

In that spirit, I sincerely hope that you enjoy “Washington: The Art of the Landscape,” my personal portrait of this visual masterpiece, this living painting that we call home.