In 1825, painter Thomas Cole founded the Hudson River School, an artistic movement that embraced the power of nature through works that encouraged its exploration while inspiring man to both settle ...

Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

Pressure continues to mount to develop eastern lands of Lee and Collier counties, core portions of the Greater Western Everglades ecosystem.

Education is the key to conservation, and Ian Shive’s photographs in The National Parks: Our American Landscape enlighten viewers with a rare, adrenaline-filled look at the phenomenal beauty of the ...

But no nation in the history of civilizations ever attempted, much less succeeded, in imposing abstract geometrical order on the natural world as completely as the young United States of America. As ...

Visitors to the Mennello Museum of American Art can find themselves transported to faraway majestic vistas and into bucolic landscapes of yesteryear, all without leaving Orlando. “In Nature’s Studio,” ...

Lewis Baltz, an American landscape photographer who helped lead the New Topographics movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, died November 23, 2014, reports the Washington Post. Age 69, he had ...

Lois Dodd, "White Echinacea + Butterflies" (1997-98), oil on linen, 36 x 58 inches (all images courtesy Center for Figurative Painting) There are many competing narratives about what happened in ...

Hugh Lee Pattinson, “American Falls” (1840), daguerreotype, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (courtesy Robinson Library, Newcastle University, England) East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American ...

CATSKILL, N.Y. — Two significant corrections to the Western art canon happened last week. Who: Curated by Nancy Siegel, professor of art history at Towson University, Kate Menconeri, chief curator and ...