In 1955 the critic Clement Greenberg published American-Type Painting, championing Jackson Pollock and other abstract painters as elite, avant-garde modernists who focused on specific qualities of ...

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 American Art Museum to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculptures for comparative study.

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 ...

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