The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

a curator at New York’s American Folk Art Museum, where an exhibition of art representing Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November. During that era, Black figures in art ...

Across furniture, silver, folk and outsider art, manuscripts, painting and more, Christie’s specialists give us an insider look at important objects of American history on offer this January.

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 ...

In this lesson, students research the face jug, a 19th century art form that formed a bridge between African American freedmen ... ancestry or as a decorative folk art using the original methods.

1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly imaginative. Private Collection / Smithsonian American Art Museum At the start ...

Marybeth Keene has been active in the field of American antiques for almost 30 years and is a noted expert on antique textiles as well as 18th- and 19th-century furniture and folk art. Marybeth ...

You can view three 19th-century paintings with deep cultural and historical importance to Hawaii that are rarely accessible ...

The “long 19th century” begins with the French Revolution of 1789 and ends in 1914, with the First World War. We’ll examine the artistic movements that chiefly led to further developments in art: ...