But no nation in the history of civilizations ever attempted, much less succeeded, in imposing abstract geometrical order on the natural world as completely as the young United States of America. As ...

The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts is set to showcase a new exhibition, "In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting," from Sept. 13 to Jan. 4. The exhibition features ...

ROCKLAND, Maine — “Indians Viewing Landscape,” Thomas Cole’s tiny 1840 painting of a great sweeping vista of the Adirondack mountains, is what I’d call the keystone piece of “Native Prospects: ...

HARTFORD — Thomas Cole was worried. He had left Pennsylvania for New Hampshire's White Mountains in the summer of 1827 on the advice of his patron, Daniel Wadsworth. Once there, the English-born ...