Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

A summer intern describes her experience delving into the RISD Museum's databases, searching for human elements

How did Japanese printmakers and poets of the 19th century express feelings and symbolic meanings through artworks depicting nature?

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made his first trip abroad in 1883, disembarking in Great Britain then making a wide sweep through France, Holland, Switzerlan

This late fifteenth-century Virgin and Child was created with subtlety, flexibility, and portability in mind. These features were central to its medieval use—and its use at the RISD Museum.

In the fall of 2014, RISD art history students curated an exhibition comparing Tokaido Road views by artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). That exhibition is now on view in the Museum.