Author: Estill Curtis Pennington

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America’s cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin …

From 1802, when the young artist William Edward West began painting portraits on a downriver trip to New Orleans, to 1918, when John Alberts, the last of Frank Duveneck’s students, worked in Louisvil …

Originally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the ‘Athens of the West, …

The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from Barbizon …

From 1802, when the young artist William Edward West began painting portraits on a downriver trip to New Orleans, to 1918, when John Alberts, the last of Frank Duveneck’s students, worked in Louisvil …

Originally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the "Athens of the …

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America’s cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin …

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America’s cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin …

From the Potomac to the Gulf, artists were creating in the South even before it was recognized as a region. The South has contributed to America’s cultural heritage with works as diverse as Benjamin …