Henry Hamilton Bennett, Lower Jaws, Dells of the Wisconsin, (1903). National Gallery of Art, Washington/Gift of the UBS Art Collection Historic images from the Farm Security Administration ...

In their pictures they sought to memorialize the grandeur and beauty of the American landscape. An Englishman, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), spearheaded the movement, but its core practitioners were ...

An ambitious new initiative across the U.S. is sneaking works of American art into subways, on billboards and the sides of buses, and into view for a greater audience, without charging admission.

Yet some artists, in their search for an authentic American art, ... and at the same time broke from traditional modes of landscape painting. Images: (Left) Don Wiest (American, 1909-1995), Americana, ...

The Highwaymen were a group of African-American artists in the '60s and '70s who sold idyllic paintings by the roadside of Florida's Route 1. Back then, they nearly saturated the market with their ...

The American painter John Frederick Kensett (1816-72), whose late paintings are currently the subject of an enchanting, small-scale exhibition at the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Conn., achieved … ...

Similar questions about the makers can be asked of any painting we see. Images are never neutral. They take points of view, they make statements, and landscape paintings influence how others see ...

“In Nature’s Studio” exhibits more than 50 American landscape paintings from the early 19th Century through the 20th Century.