Whalers

Smerenburg on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen was a settlement of Dutch whalers. The painter was never there, but constructed a hotchpotch of drawn and painted motifs that he k...

This breast ornament was once worn by Hawaiian nobility, especially the ´ali'i´, the head man, as a symbol of power and status. These necklaces were developed in the late nineteent...

Frederic Church, one of the leading landscape artists of the Hudson River School, produced an outstanding gallery of pictures both of his own country and of the different exotic la...