“Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature and Culture ” is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with generous support from Joanne and Richard Brodie, Billings and John Cay ...

Humboldt’s ideas on art, nature, and philosophy helped to shape American artists, including the influential Hudson River school painters Katie Hondorf Frederic Edwin Church, “Study for “The ...

SAAM's Senior Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey and Dean Howarth take a closer look at mastodon bones in the exhibition Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture. Charles ...

Smithsonian curator Eleanor Jones Harvey led us on a tour of the exhibit "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture" at the American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. She ...

If you haven’t yet become intrigued by Humboldt, a wonderful exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C., titled Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, ...

Not quite a pure scientist, not quite an artist, Humboldt stood poised between these two poles. In “The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World,” Andrea Wulf reclaims ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is hosting “The World of Alexander von Humboldt,” a six-part, free online lecture series with presentations by historians of art and science and contemporary ...

In the second of a two-part program, we toured the exhibit "Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture" with Smithsonian curator Eleanor Jones Harvey. She describes how ...