But no nation in the history of civilizations ever attempted, much less succeeded, in imposing abstract geometrical order on the natural world as completely as the young United States of America. As ...

Visitors to the Mennello Museum of American Art can find themselves transported to faraway majestic vistas and into bucolic landscapes of yesteryear, all without leaving Orlando. “In Nature’s Studio,” ...

ROCKLAND, Maine — “Indians Viewing Landscape,” Thomas Cole’s tiny 1840 painting of a great sweeping vista of the Adirondack mountains, is what I’d call the keystone piece of “Native Prospects: ...

HARTFORD — Thomas Cole was worried. He had left Pennsylvania for New Hampshire's White Mountains in the summer of 1827 on the advice of his patron, Daniel Wadsworth. Once there, the English-born ...