Two Winslow Homer paintings that were recently appraised on Antiques Roadshow have been auctioned by Christie's during its 19th century American Art and Western Painting sales on January 23.

Over just eight months, the Fenimore Art Museum, with the support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, expanded its fine art collection with the acquisition of twenty-seven new ...

Bill Gates set what was then an American art record when he bought Winslow Homer's "Lost on the Grand Banks" for $36 million in 1998. The painting hangs on a wall outside his home library.

American artist Winslow Homer painted A Visit from the Old Mistress in 1876. In it he portrays the tension that existed between white plantation owners and their former slaves following emancipation.