Visually evocative prints and related artwork are featured in an exhibition that explores American artists' innovative and unconventional printmaking techniques in the years during and just after World War II.
Many of the greatest practitioners of landscape painting in Britain also were actively engaged in printmaking. "Picturesque to Pastoral" explores the graphic side of landscape in British art from the 18th through the 20th century.
The landscape of California as depicted by a variety of 20th-century artists is highlighted in this small exhibition of paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs.
The first major exhibition on one of the most creative and enigmatic figures of the American Arts and Crafts movement comes to Southern California this summer.
In the 19th century, with the work of Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll, and others, children's fairy tales and nursery rhymes began to be widely published, documenting what was originally a rich oral tradition across western cultures.
Some 20 years before "the shot heard 'round the world" launched the American Revolution, a young Lt. Col. George Washington helped set a separate world conflict in motion.
In the 19th century, color lithography created a communication revolution and brought art, literature, and music to the masses. The process had a dramatic impact on consumer culture...
During the nineteenth century, art of the Dutch Golden Age—roughly the seventeenth century—was the most sought by American collectors. Wealthy New Yorkers and Philadelphians vied for paintings, drawings and prints in the dealers' rooms and auction houses of Europe.