The Chiura Obata Papers were the source for an assignment created in the Archives of American Art’s Teaching with Primary Sources workshop Michaela Rife Chiura Obata, El Capitan, n.d., watercolor on ...
I passed by the painting once. Then a second time. And again for a third time. At last, I remembered my mantra for art that does not immediately catch my eye: Look closer. Claude Lorrain’s “Pastoral ...
Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from Bruce W. Heinemann’s book “Washington: The Art of the Landscape.” WASHINGTON IS A magnificent land of dynamic contrasts. It is a land born of fire, ...
One needs years of immersion in Chinese culture, language, history and philosophy to be able to fully appreciate the timeless beauty and symbolic richness of Chinese ink paintings. Despite this, ...