Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.

Anders Zorn was a Swedish painter known for his depictions of nude bathers, country festivals ... Zorn developed a sure-handed approach to color and tone that informed his oil paintings. Over the ...

Thomas Cole did something different with Native Americans. He made them the focal point of an image. Cole, who had ...