FOR the existence of a school of beautiful landscape art in a country it. is necessary that the landscape itself should be beautiful. However good may be the natural endowments of the artist, and ...

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 ...

Our earthly home lays out her natural splendor beneath a cloud of impending peril. This much we know in the era of climate crisis awareness, which may increase an innate desire to retreat to and bask ...

To appreciate the nature for its own sake, landscape painting continues to be a major theme in art. From 15th century onward, landscape paintings were romanticized and used to express on humanity and ...

At the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, the philanthropists Cathy and Peter Halstead are creating a new model of sculpture park where the arts and nature can enhance each other. By Lauren Gallow ...

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From its earliest beginnings as a colonized territory, Louisiana has always been seen as a land apart. Its landscapes, tangled with vegetation and dense with waterways, were alternately viewed as ...

Give an old log to Marcia Perry, and she will create a work of art. “I’m a sculptor who brings trees back to life,” explained Perry, one of many artists who live in or near Saugatuck on Michigan’s ...

What should a 21st-century exhibition of art depicting the Colorado landscape look like? Two nearly back-to-back exhibitions, including a two-part offering that just opened at the Center for Visual ...