The 19th-century American galleries have gone dark at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, scheduled for a grand reopening early next year. In the meantime, works by that century’s brashest master, the ...

The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... skies and untouched landscape was the British-American painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848).

Christie’s is kicking off the new year with news of an exciting discovery for collectors of American art and folk ... double-sided portrait by 18th-century artist Ammi Phillips (1788–1865).

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West ... Germany to gain deeper knowledge and skill of painting, returning to the ...

An exhibition featuring the work of New Brunswick artist Edward Mitchell Bannister opens this weekend in Sackville.

A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture in Philadelphia is now on view at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania after being bought for $10 at a suburban ...

Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...

“Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art” was translated and updated ... Rougeux has transformed the static pages of a 19th-century book into an interactive resource.

A watercolor painting by 19th-century Philadelphia artist William ... He co-founded the American Negro Historical Society and maintained a personal museum of African American art and history ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...