Englehart painted hundreds of realist landscapes of the American West in the late 1800s and early 1900s, though much about the man himself remains a mystery. He was born in Chicago in 1867 — or ...

One of America’s most important and influential landscape artists was a free Black man in the 1800s who spent decades creating in Detroit and even died here. Yet many still don’t know his name ...

One of America’s most important and influential landscape artists was a free Black man in the 1800s who spent decades creating in Detroit and even died here. Yet many still don’t know his name ...

Drowned Lands of the Lower Raquette, Adirondacks, 1888, albumen print (Seneca Ray Stoddard via Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress) Perspective by Chloe Coleman In the mid-1800s ...

The exhibition has landscape paintings from the early 1800s including The Orchard (above) painted in 1887 . Work from decorated artist Dame Ethel Walker (1861-1951) is also included in the display.

During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later ...

A color-coded depiction of the landscape in the Ann Arbor area in the early 1800s prior to the town's founding by white settlers who displaced Native Americans.