An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science. Researchers from ...

Once dismissed as exercises in dainty femininity, the handiwork of schoolgirls is now celebrated for anticipating the art of ...

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 ...

Explore the creative journey of a fine art landscape painter and discover the inspiration, techniques, and process behind ...

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 ...

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 ...

For generations of painters and admirers, rare and seldom-displayed landscape painting from China’s Song dynasty rank among the most outstanding achievements of Chinese culture. On view May 17–Oct. 26 ...

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 ...