The natural world is a living art gallery. To appreciate the often intricate colorations that evolved in many cases over millions of years requires slowing down, way down, and stopping.

For generations, painters tried to depict natural landscapes to construct works that felt like a spiritual hub of serenity and peace.

The museum has a gallery of southern landscape paintings. When we look at something ... think that Eleanor Lewis’s love of our state’s natural beauty, had somehow survived for four generations.

In Chinese, qiuhe means hills and valleys where streams run through, resembling the recurring motifs of the mountain-and-water style in classical Chinese paintings. It also means a realm of ...