landscape

painting of artist painting outside in front of mountain
Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780–1870
Join curator Mary Morton on a tour of highlights from the exhibition True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870. Young artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries developed their skills…
Albert Bierstadt oil landscape painting of Mount St. Helens, Columbia River, Oregon
Volcano! Mount St. Helens in Art
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the great eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, the Portland Art Museum presents Volcano! Mount St. Helens in Art, an exhibition examining artists’ responses to…
Woman holding bob ross painting on couch
Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings?

 

Bob Ross painted more than 1,000 landscapes for his television show — so why are they so hard to find? Solving one of the internet’s favorite little mysteries.

Linework to Linen: The Prints and Paintings of Joel Ostlind

An exhibit of art by Joel Ostlind of Big Horn will feature his intaglios and acrylic paintings depicting his favorite subjects – Wyoming and the landscape of the West. New work will be…

Wave (1889)
Recovered Shipwreck Reveals Treasure Trove of Lost Paintings
A team of Russian underwater explorers may have stumbled upon a cache of lost artworks worth millions.
Harold Weston, Sunset Over Baxter Mountain, 1920
"The Thoreau of the Adirondacks”: Rediscovering Harold Weston
The rising curves of the Adirondack Mountains become a repeated motif in the early 20th century landscape paintings of Harold Weston (1894-1974), now featured in a career spanning solo exhibition at…
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The Landscape Remade: Wayne Thiebaud's "Ponds and Streams"
Wayne Thiebaud's 2001 acrylic painting Ponds and Streams shows the tainted beauty of California's Central Valley.
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The Contemporary Appeal of Friedrich’s 19th Century Landscapes
Experience the power Caspar David Friedrich’s 19th-century landscapes still have to make us consider man’s relationship with nature.