Great Works: Landscape ... black, is profoundly so, like gritty, fresh-mined coal, the medium a mixture of (black) ink, acrylic and ... it puts us in mind of Turner, whose paintings were often ...

Locally, Behler is most famous for his mural of the Liberty Bell’s trip from Philadelphia to Allentown, a 7-by-48-foot painting exhibited in the Liberty Bell Shrine in Allentown.

A house, these paintings seem to imply, is to the landscape in which it nestles as a painting is to the world in which it sits: alien and incommunicative—all exteriority.

The Great Migration of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North was a shift that reshaped America forever. Artist Jacob Lawrence captured that story in an epic work of ...

And that’s kind of the point for Kinder with these paintings of South Dakota’s landscapes. “I am hoping that they will feel the love for South Dakota that I do for the landscape,” Kinder said.