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Art Lessons NEH puts American materpieces in schools across the country. By Maggie Riechers William H. Gerdts talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about American art, scholarship, and his fixation with pears.
The prolific, opinionated artist behind The Sources of Country Music. By Justin Wolff In Defense of Cooper James Fenimore Cooper was a major literary innovator with fans such as Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad. Take that, Mark Twain. By Wayne Franklin A Summer Scene While vacationing in Queens, Cooper suffers a fever and writes the violent twelfth chapter of The Last of the Mohicans By Wayne Franklin Wyeth's Noble Savage An excerpt from Picturing America describes how an artist interpreted Cooper's prose. High Thinking and Low Living How a mansion-turned-boardinghouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut, became the place to be for American Impressionists. By Laura Wolff Scanlan The Passing City Artist John Sloan documented the sidewalk theater of a changing New York. By Susan Saccoccia Around the Nation Virginia's Robert Vaughan connects his state to the world. By Courteney Stuart Planned Paradise A postwar boom transforms Florida from backwater to dream state. By Dan Sheuerman Archive Subscribe |
