In October 1825, a New York City bookstore displayed three paintings in its windows that changed the course of American art.

If you traveled by way of Florida's Route 1 in the '60s and '70s, you might have encountered young African-American landscape artists selling oil paintings of an idealized, candy-colored, Kennedy-era ...

The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and ...

From Thomas Cole to Childe Hassam, see how American artists captured nature’s beauty in a new exhibit running through January.

Major American landscape artists, from the 19th century to contemporary, will be featured from 5-8 p.m. at a First Friday opening reception Feb. 3 in an exhibition titled "Landscape" in Kiechel Fine ...

One of the most celebrated artists of the Hudson River School of painting was an African American who never lived in the Hudson Valley. His name was Robert Seldon Duncanson. Duncanson was born in 1821 ...

Considered one the most quintessential American artists of the 20th century, Edward Hopper created canvases that compel audiences to inhabit a moment in time, cultivating scenes that are both familiar ...

"Three hundred years of American painting: the Montclair Art Museum collection," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989. Montclair Art Museum, unpublished checklist, 1988. "The American Painting ...

In the 1960s and '70s, if you were in a doctor's office, or a funeral home, or a motel in Florida, chances are a landscape painting hung on the wall. Palms arching over the water, or moonlight on an ...