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 ...

Here are some of the most influential female painters who shaped modern art history. Frida Kahlo is famous for her intensely ...

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 ...

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

“The American art collecting category wasn’t ... There’s also early-20th-century Ashcan School urban painting and Western subjects in a variety of styles. Each one of these sub-genres ...

Four decades after its debut at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Richard Avedon’s In the American West is back at the ...

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 ...