The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculptures for comparative study.

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Max Waugh (USA) catches sight of a plains bison kicking up flurries of snow over its ...

Catlin wrote that he wanted to show individual Native American men riding their horses “at full speed” hunting hundreds of bison. This depiction of man versus beast stands out against the ...