Looking out on the windblown trees on a bluff in New Salem, Ga., Beth Bradford thinks about how life twists and turns people through different experiences. Those trees, along with rocks, rivers and ...

What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

Shara Hughes, whose invented landscapes have intoxicated me since I saw one nearly 10 years ago, is at a turning point. At 42, she’s getting married to her longtime partner and fellow artist, Austin ...

PARIS—Through the course of art history up through the Renaissance, landscape painting didn't exist. If a grove of trees or a rocky waterfall appeared, it was only as a background detail in a ...

Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

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