Although popular audiences reacted with humor to art they perceived as elite, the Armory Show nonetheless became a landmark in popularizing modern painting in the U.S. Following World War I, an ...

The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian ... and other works of art by late 19th century and early 20th century American artists. Photographs from the ...

Charles Dana Gibson was an American illustrator born in 1867 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was known for his pen-and-ink drawings that often depicted the beautiful and independent American woman at ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established a museum ... a practicing Muslim -- supposedly a rarity in 19th century America, though that question is still open to ...