Humanity, of course, had been present here for millennia, but paintings like these made Bierstadt famous in the rapt eastern colonies. His fame inspired others to follow suit: Frederick A. Butman ...

Featuring a wide range of Western paintings and sculptures by nearly 100 acclaimed artists, the 53rd Prix de West is on view ...

The 41 paintings in "American Impressionism" date from 1861 to the late 1930s, a period of change and upheaval in American and global history, including the Industrial Revolution, World War I and ...

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York has opened a new exhibition titled \“Native Prospects: Indigeneity and Landscape.\” It juxtaposes an Indigenous approach to the ...

Over the years, my mom was in group exhibitions but never sought out a gallery show. To this day, she has a mixture of ...

“These paintings – if accurate – provide potentially valuable information about landscapes and forests in the mid-1800s, but up till now, the use of 19th-century landscape art in historical ...

Those paintings, like Cole’s “View in the White Mountains,” christened him as the father of the Hudson River School, the first language of American art for a country then searching for its identity.

The U.S. Postal Service has introduced “American Vistas,” a new set of Presorted Standard stamps designed for business mail users. The stamps, which depict scenic landscapes, were unveiled at ...

Thomas Cole's art is a treasure, yet its untold stories are significant. In PART ONE of REFRAMING AN EMPIRE we look at the creation of the American Identity, specifically New York; the Empire ...

The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art’s Teaching with Primary Sources workshop Michaela Rife Chiura Obata, El Capitan, n.d ...

Highlighting the paintings is a pristine 1888 river landscape with figures by Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, 1823-1900) (est. $40,000-60,000). The view may have been near Cropsey's home in Hastings ...