The 19th century was the great age of plein-air landscape painting, when artists left their studios and took to the outdoors to capture not a romanticized ­vision of nature but the real thing. To ...

A two-hour quick-draw painting challenge event and sidewalk show and sale takes place in the area around Columbia Market House, 15 S. 3rd St., Columbia, from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 15.