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., watercolor on ...

Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

Visitors to the Mennello Museum of American Art can find themselves transported to faraway majestic vistas and into bucolic landscapes of yesteryear, all without leaving Orlando. “In Nature’s Studio,” ...

It is the Romantic visual artist for whom the diminishing light of day and the haunting of moonlight has had a special allure. Romanticism was an approach to understanding the world and humankind’s ...

Thomas Cole was a visionary who took a different approach to his surroundings, and that approach would go on to inspire generations of artists. America was still a young country when Cole emigrated to ...

"A Museum in Action, Presenting the Museum's Activities, Catalogue of an exhibition of American paintings and sculpture from the museum's collection," Newark, NJ: Newark Museum, 1944. "American Art in ...

Lois Dodd, "White Echinacea + Butterflies" (1997-98), oil on linen, 36 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Center for Figurative Painting) There are many competing narratives about what happened in ...

Perched along the sparkling shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay, the Art Museum of South Texas (AMST) is a destination where art, architecture and coastal beauty meet. This spring, AMST ...

“We Dream a World: African American Landscape Painters of Mid-Century Florida, The Highwaymen” is the heavyweight title of a dreamy exhibition at Selby Botanical Gardens. Curated by Radiah Lovette ...

An exhibition at Schoelkopf marks the 250th birthday of America and the gallery’s own silver anniversary with a collection of ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. — Two significant corrections to the Western art canon happened last week. Who: Curated by Nancy Siegel, professor of art history at Towson University, Kate Menconeri, chief curator and ...

"That painting was the beginning of a collection that eventually grew to over 200 works," Tackett says. The 41 paintings in "American Impressionism" date from 1861 to the late 1930s, a period of ...