Over 21,000 painters and nearly 15,000 sculptors are represented in the database. The Inventory of American Paintings began in the early 1970s, and has collected data on over 350,000 paintings created ...

"Painted with Silk" is a new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It explores the art of early American embroidery.

The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...

The artist called the eight-foot-tall painting of Jesus on the cross one of his "very best." The New Yorker called it “his ...