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 ...

Art lovers and wine enthusiasts are invited to experience the charm of Winters during the next Second Saturday Art & Wine ...

How a years-long collaborative relationship between Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston led to “Dutch Painting: ...

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 ...

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.

Thomas Moran's "The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone" was bought by Congress in 1872 for $10,000, a huge sum at that time. This and other works of art helped lead to the formation of the park.

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.

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).

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 ...