In 1998, Komar and Melamid, a Russian emigre team of conceptual art buffoons, employed scientific polling techniques to find out what Americans want from art. The result, published in their book, ...

This dissertation examines the patronage and function of overmantel and other painted landscape views in the American home during the early national period. I begin by focusing on the overmantel ...

AAPGMAIN copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. From the Schuylkill to the Hudson delves into the important and under-explored tradition of landscape painting in Philadelphia from the early American ...

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 ...

17.8 x 20.6 cm. (7 x 8.1 in.) ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This is the 24th of a series of stories that will be featured in the Pensacola News Journal to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Escambia County. Look for these stories each Monday in ...

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 ...

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. NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Susie M. Barstow’s ...

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,” ...