landscapes

How 19th-Century Painter Frederic Edwin Church Created Luminescent Art Full of Beauty and Hope

The story is told of a moment in the North Carolina mansion of Richard Joshua Reynolds, American businessman and founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. One of the family’s ...

April 13, 2022BY Bob Kirchman
America the Beautiful

This gallery was published in American Essence magazine.

December 6, 2021BY Cat Rooney
Portraits Painted for Love, Not Money

The family portfolio of the great British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is the most comprehensive collection of personal ...

February 4, 2019BY Lorraine Ferrier
Chinese Shan Shui Painting Through the Yuan Dynasty

Chinese landscape painting, known as shan shui ("mountain water"), can be considered one of the highest forms of ...

January 14, 2019BY Mike Cai
Transcendent Landscapes

You ask me why I dwell in the emerald mountains. I smile and make no reply, my heart ...

September 6, 2018BY Irene Luo