The United States was born out of the British Colonies, which had been founded in North America beginning in 1607. These colonies were orig...

Any regular reader of this blog will know that I am very interested in prints of the American West from the illustrated newspapers of the n...

Linda, who has a blog at Artifacts Collectors recently sent me some questions for an interview, which she has now posted on her blog . I t...

As part of my "western art" education, I have been reading up on a number of the artists who produced first-hand images of the tra...

In my last blog, I wrote about what I call “ novelty prints .” These are prints that were not intended to present a straight-forward pictur...

As I have mentioned before, I am primarily interested in prints as historic artifacts, that is as objects which are part of our past, not as...

One hundred and fifty years ago today, the first battle of the Civil War began, launching a conflict which would consume four years, over 60...