VICTOR, Mont. — You can still find windmills on the American landscape. Most of them are in rural areas with limited water. But for the most part, they are vestiges of a time that is passing. Big Sky ...

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 ...

There are many variations to look for in scenes of landscape paintings, particularly in images that depict sunset, twilight and moonlight.

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 ...

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 ...

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 group of writers has collected more than 800 fading landscape terms in a new book -- Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Their hope is to keep words such as "kiss tank" and "lover's ...

“Women have literally shaped the American landscape and continue to today, but their names and contributions are largely unknown.” By Tanya Mohn This article is part of our latest Fine Arts & Exhibits ...

A native of Shreveport, Joe Lambert Jr. was the son of a landscape architect and trained in art and urban planning at Columbia University. He returned to Shreveport and, with his younger brother Henry ...

Why Cole’s wounded pride helped inspire a national school of painting. By Michael Prodger The origins of what has come to be adopted as the US’s national landscape painting lie not in natural beauty ...