Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

Timken Museum revisits Bierstadt’s 19th-century masterpiece “Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall” through Monkman’s 2012 work, “The ...

For nearly two decades, cinematic art that counters negative stereotypes, combats false narratives and offers first-hand insight about the continent of Africa have been showcased at Washington ...

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The enduring strength of the American art market was on display and at Christie’s today as two sales, American Sublime: Property from an Important Private Collection and 19th Century American and ...

Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors ... Mr. Peck, a pre-eminent figure in American mycology, dedicated most of his career to fungi, collecting more than 33,000 specimens in surveys across ...

19th century American art and American Impressionism drove stellar results in Shannon’s fall auction held October 24th. The sale totaled over $3 million, with 80 percent of the 183 lots selling.

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “wild reciter”, ...

Van Young was an internationally celebrated scholar of colonial and 19th-century Latin American history, with an emphasis on ...

Dahlonega somehow became the heart of Georgia’s wine country, with vineyards draping the surrounding hillsides and tasting rooms offering mountain views with your Cabernet. The gold mining history is ...

Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

Willis Gorman issued the first pardon in 1854, to Louis Monroe, an African American man convicted ... Clemency as understood in nineteenth-century Minnesota, once so common, no longer exists.