Niagara Falls has been called the American Mecca—a natural wonder and famed destination for honeymooners and daredevils alike. The colossal cataract at the border of New York and Ontario was the ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — When Frederic Edwin Church unveiled “The Heart of the Andes” in the spring of 1859, it was not the painting art critics took issue with, but its frame. Church chose to forgo the ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — A hazy pink mass swells behind atmospheric clouds above the Catskill Mountains in a distant valley behind the simple white cross adorned in wreaths of flowers that is the central focus ...

Humboldt’s ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists, including the influential Hudson River school painters Katie Hondorf Frederic Edwin Church, “Study for “The Heart of ...

His prominence lasted little more than a decade, but while it did Frederic Edwin Church caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. George Gardner Rockwood and Napoleon ...

Prepared in connection with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art from Oct. 8, 1989 to Jan. 28, 1990. Foreword / J. Carter Brown -- Acknowledgments / Franklin Kelly -- Introduction / Franklin ...

Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in 2010 and has been updated. You can read the previous post here. The visual feast that is Olana is painter Frederic Edwin Church’s 1870s dream home ...

Thomas Nozkowski, “Untitled (8-61)” (2005), oil on linen on panel, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the James F. Dicke Family, 2014.12.12 (© 2005, Thomas Nozkowski) On Wednesday, October 12 at ...

Mark Rothko and Frederic Edwin Church in a sublime pairing; Art Club 2000 during the banal 1990s; and Paul Smith’s pinhole exposures. Through March 13. Mnuchin, 45 East 78th Street, Manhattan; (212) ...