When artists and twin brothers Trevor and Ryan Oakes set out to paint a Red River Valley winter landscape, they planned to work by the light of the moon. Their first night, with the temperature ...

Hetty Easter loves to capture the beauty of a winter’s day on her canvas. Easter, of Skaneateles, is an artist who paints portraits, landscapes and events (including weddings) for clients. She ...

Several important paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, of which Winter Landscape with Iceskaters (circa 1608) by Hendrick Avercamp is a particularly fine example, show us socially levelling, panoramic ...

Mathews, Nancy Mowll, "The Art of Leisure: Maurice Prendergast in the Williams College Museum of Art," Williamstown, MA: Williams College Museum of Art, 1999, pg. 65. Clark, Carol, Nancy Mowll Mathews ...

"It's a very romantic picture of sunset and snow and river and mountains," says Coe. "The interesting thing about Farquharson is, his landscapes are all about mood." Farquharson studied in France, ...

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an "acceptance of the seasonality of life". With its bare ...

Trying to navigate the history of art—its artists, its ideas, its interpretations and interrelations, its foundations and attitudes—can be inspiring yet also intimidating. (Cue image of an Ancient ...

Plein Air, in French, means “in the open air” – in other words, art that is painted outdoors. In Florida in April, when the rainy season and the summer humidity hasn’t quite taken hold yet, that ...

Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don’t pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind alike. By Holland Cotter It always feels like early ...

After more than 25 teaching art in Polk County and 35 years in a career as a professional artist, Carol Conti, of Winter Haven, is ending her teaching career to spend more time on her recreational art ...