A master of portraiture and a leading figure of American Impressionism, Cecilia Beaux left a lasting mark on 19th-century painting with her luminous and realistic works. Let’s take a closer look at an ...

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, ...

Great American painting does all of this and makes you feel something too. These are, in no particular order, the 50 American paintings everyone should know. Written by @ debyrd .

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

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, ...

“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.

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, ...

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.