The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts must have been very nice this year. For the holidays, it has received the most valuable gift in its history, American artist Asher B. Durand’s Progress (The Advance of ...

The century after the United States established its independence saw artists making works that were crucial to forming the country’s cultural identity.

RICHMOND, Va. — An “important work of American art” has found a new home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. An anonymous donor gifted Asher B. Durand’s painting Progress (The Advance of Civilization ...

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 ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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An imaginary journey through the beautiful landscapes of the United States, immortalized by some of the most iconic painters and photographers of the "New World". On October 4, 2024, the Brooklyn ...