And although his images can read as the creations of a political environmentalist akin to Robert Adams, Burtynsky nonetheless maintains an interest in art-historical sources, including Earthworks, early landscape photography, luminist painting, and even the intensely colored photographs of unpeopled forests that grace the publications of the environmentalist Sierra Club.

Kinkade has perfected a technique first introduced by a distinguished group of 19th-century American painters known as luminists, Allie said.

NEW YORK -- Eli Wilner & Company, the world's largest resource for antique American and European frames has been selected to facilitate the framing for the presentation of the National Academy Museum's forthcoming exhibition Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James Suydam.