WILLIAMSTOWN — The soft strains of a flute float over the soft whooshing of water as it rushes by, slapping up against the river bank, pooling around the ankles of the sheep, goats and cows that wade ...

John Constable's The Hay Wain presents a bucolic view of England – but there's a dark side to the idealised rural image. Widely satirised and reproduced on everything from bath towels to biscuit tins, ...

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So great are the expectations surrounding exhibitions of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that it is hard not to be slightly disappointed with the small show of Hudson River paintings at the ...

A landscape painting called Wheat Field with Cypresses painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside.

'The Watering Place': Gainsborough's trees are ideals of foliage, vast greenish ink spatters against the sky The half-dozen landscape paintings, ranging in date from the 1740s to the 1780s, are ...

Before you begin painting, or even consider painting, ask yourself why you want to paint landscapes or any other subject. Is it because it lets you replicate the appearance and feel of what your eyes ...