FOR some inscrutable reason, this seems to be the year of Asher B. Durand. A massive exhibition of the 19th-century landscape painter has just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and another – having to do ...

American artist Asher B. Durand made headlines in 2005 when one of his mid-19th-century paintings was purchased by Wal-Mart heiress Alice L. Walton from the New York Public Library for a purported $35 ...

A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the ...

"Group of Trees," by Asher Durand via Oregon State University, ca. 1856. A new study from OSU shows that landscape paintings like Durand's could be used to aid historical forest research. When you ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental ...

"Catalogue of American portraits in the New-York Historical Society; volume 1," New Haven: Published for the New York Historical Society by Yale University Press, 1974. Ferber, Linda S., ed., "Kindred ...

What would the lions in front of the New York Public Library fetch at auction? This seems a reasonable question, given that the New York Public Library recently sold off one of the most celebrated ...

So great are the expectations surrounding exhibitions of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that it is hard not to be slightly disappointed with the small show of Hudson River paintings at the ...

“We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our ignorance and folly.” Thomas Cole. Essay on American Scenery, 1835. The Poetry of Nature, organized by the New-York Historical ...

Landscape painting, like abstract art, goes on forever. Today abstractionism is the height of fashion, but thousands of housewives and businessmen amuse themselves by painting surprisingly competent ...