In the late 19th century, women known as antis began to organize against women who wanted the right to vote. The antis viewed suffragists as angry killjoys who wanted to intrude on politics, the proper realm of men. They argued ...

New England’s fall foliage inspires so much imagery we were pretty sure we could find six autumn paintings of New England. Then we thought we could identify each location and find a current photo, with help from Google Maps, Wikipedia ...

The summer White House has been a feature of presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy heat of Washington, D.C. Spending time away from the nation’s capital also allowed the president to ...

Childe Hassam liked to paint without his shirt on, and sometimes beat his chest while at work. He was fun, energetic and self-assured, and when he started going to Florence Griswold’s house in Old Lyme, Conn., other artists followed.  He ...

When John Henry Twachtman finished this Connecticut landscape in 1895, he was inspiring other American painters to adopt fresh, original elements of the French Impressionist style of painting. He did much of his painting and teaching at the Cos Cob Art Colony, credited ...

Witter Bynner was an acclaimed author, poet and scholar who was pressed into service as a bird actor in 1913 by his friend Percy MacKaye, a fellow member of the art colony in Cornish, N.H. The occasion was the dedication ...

Daybreak Maxfield Parrish in 1922 was inspired by New Hampshire’s scenery to create the lush, romantic painting  Daybreak, which became the most popular art print of the 20th century. One in four U.S. households owned a print of the neoclassical ...

Amy Beach’s parents realized their daughter was a prodigy when she knew 40 songs at the age of one, sang countermelodies at two and composed waltzes at five. As a young child she heard each key in a different color. ...