At a time when American newspapers flourished and new dailies popped up like weeds, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) invited reporters to his studio to build public anticipation for his massive.

Works by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church, Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, Winslow Homer, Fitz Henry Lane, Pablo Picasso, Jack Butler Yeats, and many more of the world’s most ...