Farming returned as a popular theme in art, beginning with medieval paintings and prayer books, like the Book of Hours, and continuing on through the 19th century.

Ross Butler began his career as an artist in earnest in the 1920s with a few commissioned portraits and paintings of animals.

The exhibit began with paintings and mosaics, generations old.

It begins with paintings from 1966, when Ms. Piper was barely out of high school.

His art career began with paintings of tugboats during his teenage years, and later, in the 1970s, his abstract work sold for as much as $1500.

The show begins, appropriately, with paintings by Joseph Blackburn of a John Irving Jr. and his wife.

It begins with paintings depicting the growth of Vodou among African slaves in the Caribbean.

My tour began, inauspiciously, with ugly 19th-century paintings of conquistadors slaying natives.

The exhibition begins, fittingly, with paintings by Thomas Cole and his student Frederick Church, the movement's heavy hitters.

The show's story, though, begins with religious paintings, with late 15th-century artists like Pedro Berruguete already giving personality to names from the distant past.