A collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.

“These paintings – if accurate – provide potentially valuable information about landscapes and forests in the mid-1800s, but up till now, the use of 19th-century landscape art in historical ...

An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.

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You can view three 19th-century paintings with deep cultural and historical importance to Hawaii that are rarely accessible to the public.

The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.

A painting bought for $10 at a thrift store near Philadelphia may be a unique masterpiece by Black painter William Henry Dorsey.

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers who began to capture the transformation of the environment.

A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture in Philadelphia is now on view at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania after being bought for $10 at a suburban ...

Exhibition of paintings by the 19 th century Russian landscape painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844- 1927) created during his journeys in the Orient: Syria, Egypt, and Palestine (15- 22 December).