Artists who prefer to paint the light houses of Lake Michigan or the rolling hills of the Sleeping Bear Dunes are called landscape artists. They use nature as their palette. The end product can be a ...

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 ...

Though many applaud hyperrealist landscape artwork — with mountains and trees rendered in such exact detail that they look almost photographic — I find that some of the most beautiful and original ...

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 ...

Before you begin painting, or even consider painting, ask yourself why you want to paint landscapes or any other subject. Is it because it lets you replicate the appearance and feel of what your eyes ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The West was built on landscape paintings. Those early vistas captured by 19th-century artists — depicting towering mountains, rolling plains, lush forests ...

Landscape-painting enthusiast Paul Allen has decided to share his art collection with the world. And seeing as how he’s the gazillionaire co-founder of Microsoft, you can imagine it’s pretty ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What should a 21st-century exhibition of art depicting the Colorado landscape look like? Two nearly back-to-back exhibitions, including a two-part offering ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

From its earliest beginnings as a colonized territory, Louisiana has always been seen as a land apart. Its landscapes, tangled with vegetation and dense with waterways, were alternately viewed as ...

Since 1990, the Agricultural Stewardship Association has worked to accomplish a singular mission: protect the farms and forests, rich soils and agricultural landscape in Washington and Rensselaer ...