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 ...

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 ...

The Alps are his canvas. Over the last ten years alpinist and landscape artist Simon Beck has created dozens of stunning works of land art in freshly laid snow. Using only a pair of snowshoes, Beck ...

In 1860, the renowned landscape painter Frederic Church purchased a mountainous tract of riverfront property, situated between the towns of Hudson and Catskill in New York’s Hudson Valley. With his ...

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Bruce W. Heinemann’s book “Washington: The Art of the Landscape.” WASHINGTON IS A magnificent land of dynamic contrasts. It is a land born of fire, ...