Have you ever had a painting show up at different times in your life when you needed it most? At Penn State in 1967, in the auditorium for Professor Jim Lord’s art history survey class, a large screen ...

“Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains,” penned the American poet Sam Walter Foss in his poem, “The ...

Exh. catalog: "Birmingham Collects: American Art Since 1776," Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art, 1976. Birmingham Museum of Art, "Handbook of the Collection," 1984 ...

PITTSFIELD — How has the Berkshire Museum loved thee, "Giant Redwood Trees of California" by Albert Bierstadt? It has, indeed, counted the ways. First, set the wayback machine to 1903, when the ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...