“It was a great pleasure for us to have your entire family under our roof. I delighted to talk of old times and of old fellows-comparing the Past and the Present and weighing in the scales of ...

When Americans took to travel and tourism in the mid-19th century, exploring the great landscape around them brought particular challenges, especially to women, who were constrained by the strictures ...

Karin Johnsson, an artist living in Finksburg, remembers doodling on church bulletins when she was 8 years old. She drew horses and princess dresses. She attended a summer camp in 2011 and drew a ...

With the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill and Frederic Church’s home Olana, a New York state Parks Historic Site, in Greenport, it’s fair to say that Greene and Columbia counties form ...

Art collections can say as much about the collectors as about the artists. Serene landscapes may disclose a preference for repose over stimulation. A preponderance of small-scale works may signal a ...

HUNTER — There’s probably not many people left who, by now, haven’t ever heard of Thomas Cole, the Hudson River School of Painting, and the cultural legacy Greene County has in, from, and to the art ...

ANDOVER — Kay WalkingStick has always painted the land, but absence often looms larger than presence. Crashing waves on an Atlantic shore are overlaid with the complex patterns of Pequot/Narragansett ...