It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...

In American art, the land and sea are presented with religious fervor in the 19th century, but that fervor was directly tied to God’s order to use and develop them, ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three ...

He makes art critics cringe, but Thomas Kinkade - whose idyllic paintings of storybook cottages and pastoral landscapes glow as if lit from within (some of them literally are, with tiny LEDs embedded ...

“New American Painting: Midwest Edition” runs through August 23 at the Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst, Illinois, 630-834-0202, www.elmhurstartmuseum.org.

No matter if you’re an art enthusiast, a history buff, a cultural tourist or just an aesthetic and visual art lover, you simply cannot ignore these 5 most iconic American Impressionist paintings ...

Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic” (1875), considered by many to be the greatest American painting of the century, is in Philadelphia. But the Met has some of his finest work, ...

American Painting in Our Century, comprising the work of fifty leading artists. Following its Boston presentation,it will be shown in Montreal, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, ...

In her largest New York museum show, Kay WalkingStick, an 88-year-old Cherokee painter, reminds us that “we’re all living on Indian Territory.” The artist Kay WalkingStick at home in Easton ...

A woman involved in bringing an exhibit of modern American paintings to China during a cultural thaw in the 1980s reflects on its impact then and now. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.