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 ...

For those who live in Taos, it can become dangerously easy to forget where we are. The mountains remain fixed along the ...

Though many applaud hyperrealist landscape artwork — with mountains and trees rendered in such exact detail that they look almost photographic — I find that some of the most beautiful and original ...

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 ...

The work of Mu Xin (b. 1927), is, in part, a dialogue with the past masters of Chinese painting and, thus, with Chinese history in general. This dialogue is a key factor in connecting Mu Xin with the ...

Landscape-painting enthusiast Paul Allen has decided to share his art collection with the world. And seeing as how he’s the gazillionaire co-founder of Microsoft, you can imagine it’s pretty ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The West was built on landscape paintings. Those early vistas captured by 19th-century artists — depicting towering mountains, rolling plains, lush forests ...

Before you begin painting, or even consider painting, ask yourself why you want to paint landscapes or any other subject. Is it because it lets you replicate the appearance and feel of what your eyes ...

One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...

Ahead of Art Busan 2026, looking at the editions of the fair to now points to intriguing shifts in the Asian art fair ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...