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 ...
As the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts fills with winter light and the scent of evergreen, I’ve returned to a simple ...
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,” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...