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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 ...
The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.
Woodger maps out the first steps in his painting process as he selects compositional elements and 'blocks out' his landscape painting. Things to think about 1.
Art supplies cover a table in the studio of Thomas Cole, considered the founder of the genre of American landscape painting known as the Hudson River School, at his home in Catskill, N.Y. (Barbara ...
How a years-long collaborative relationship between Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston led to “Dutch Painting: ...
Art lovers and wine enthusiasts are invited to experience the charm of Winters during the next Second Saturday Art & Wine ...
Trying to navigate the history of art—its artists, its ideas, its interpretations and interrelations, its foundations and attitudes—can be inspiring yet also intimidating. (Cue image of an Ancient ...
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.
Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529).
Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside. Landscape paintings may include people or animals but the focus is the scenery.