The collection documents drawings, graphic prints, paintings, and other works of art by late 19th century and early 20th century American artists. Photographs from the Photograph Study Collection may ...

A selective overview of key figures from the 18th to the 20th century, with each lecture devoted to a single painter, architect, or sculptor as representative of significant themes in the history of ...

The Comitia Americana series memorializes some of the pivotal moments of the American Revolutionary War. The series was created between 1776 and the early 19th century almost exclusively by French ...

Watercolor painting, a centuries-old technique, is more than just a way for artists to depict the world around them. This ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

Eleanor Jones Harvey is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her research interests include 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American art, notably landscape painting, southwestern ...

Not every art institution could, or should, be everything to everyone. Tucked away in big cities, leafy suburbs and college towns, some of America’s most beloved museums offer intimate and surprising ...

Introduction to Modern Art of the West, 18th and 19th Century American Art, 20th Century American Art, American Photography, and American Women in the Visual Arts. She is interested in questions about ...

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

The historic 19th century family home, filled with American art, is open for self-guided tours. You can walk through a ...

With the vinyl revival upon us, artists are enhancing new albums with old tricks ... are available on a special type of ...

(5 units) 143. Women’s Work: American Women in the Visual Arts 144. Race, Gender, and Nation in 18th- and 19th-Century American Art and Visual Culture What did visual and material arts from the ...