Along the scenic coast of Harpswell, Maine, Megan and Carolyn interned with the McGuigan Collection where they worked with a rich array of late-18th- and 19th-century art produced by American artists ...

Native and Indigenous art critical to American culture and early American art on colonization and the emergence of the first thirteen nations. The Smithsonian prides itself on not only shaping the ...

The American Impressionism movement began in the late 19th to the early 20th century, offering an American point of view on ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

A sample of the L.J. West Collection of early photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American ...

In his early 20s, Bierstadt traveled to Düsseldorf ... NY and although grand landscapes fell out of favor in the art world late in his life, his position as the quintessential painter of the American ...