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 ...

Elisabeth Lochrie and Lora Webb Nichols—witnessed the rapid transformation of women’s roles in Western American society.

These forest giants have inspired generations of artists, from Albert Bierstadt and his sweeping portraits of the American West to the creators of "Star Wars," who sent Luke Skywalker speeding ...

Works by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, Fitz Henry Lane, Pablo Picasso, Jack Butler Yeats, and many more of the world’s most ...