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America’s Forgotten Landscape Painter: Robert S. Duncanson Beloved by 19th-century audiences around the world, the African-American artist fell into obscurity, only to be celebrated as a genius ...
In her largest New York museum show, Kay WalkingStick, an 88-year-old Cherokee painter, reminds us that “we’re all living on Indian Territory.” The artist Kay WalkingStick at home in Easton ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In all of 20th-century art there may be no more tangled a tale ...
The exhibition is comprised of landscape paintings by 17 artists, most of whom were born between 1922 and ’34. The three exceptions are Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978), Aristodimos Kaldis (1899 ...
Cole was the father of American landscape painting and often cited as the founder of the Hudson River School, though he played little role in organizing what was a loose collection of painters who ...
Ed Ruscha was just another conflicted young art student in Los Angeles in 1957 when he happened to see the artwork that helped determine the direction of his career. At that time, Ruscha was in ...
The accomplished oil and watercolor artist, whose landscapes are in the permanent collections of 16 American museums, was born in Boston in 1928. He lived most of his life in ...
The celebrated Hudson River School included no women artists. A new exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art gives them their due, 150 years later.
Just two years earlier, Church had successfully marketed and sold “Niagara,” the painting that had earned him the title of America's premier landscape painter. Church also had made a fortune from his ...
This year, pioneering landscape painter Richard Mayhew became a centenarian. That means he was born a year before Malcolm X and has been painting since about the time Dwight D. Eisenhower was in ...
On May 6, the second of these canon corrections opened at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. “Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow & Her Circle/Contemporary Practices” is a two-part ...