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.

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 ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West ... Germany to gain deeper knowledge and skill of painting, returning to the ...

well-fed fellow who inhabits the imaginations of millions of American children at Christmas bears little resemblance to the mischievous St. Nick depicted in a painting by the 19th-century artist ...

What is American Primitive School, 19th Century's most expensive works on paper? Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,342 USD for Portrait of a child, sold at Dreweatts, ...

The BBC's Diane Cole reports on an exhibition of 19th-century paintings believed to depict ... skies and untouched landscape was the British-American painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848).

A previously lost William H Dorsey painting, representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture, was found at the New Life Thrift Shop in Glenside, writes Peter Crimmins for the WHYY.