There is a particular type of person whose professional bio reads like a collaborative effort between several highly motivated strangers. Usually, when someone identifies as a painter, filmmaker, poet ...

Why it mattered: The combination of canvas, oil paint and perspective enabled European artists to “create the most realistic ...

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 ...

Landscape painting is a tradition that goes back thousands of years. The paintings can be so magical that they transplant people to that particular space and time and the wide view of a landscape can ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

Moments after laying out his vision for the country with his own broad, bold brushstrokes, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden set his sights on another hopeful vision of America. At the inaugural ...