Lauren Kane is managing editor of the New York Review of Books. She writes about art, history and religion.
The American painter won worldwide renown for his lush landscapes, but perhaps his greatest work of art was the mansion he had built in the Hudson Valley
The high priest of German Romanticism is at his best when practising a minimalism that requires maximum imaginative effort from the viewer
In his paintings of landscapes and townscapes, the artist created scenes that are as psychologically complex as his portraits
