At IFA 2026 in Berlin, Samsung and the National Park Foundation announced a new Art Store collection: 40 landscape photographs by photographer Jonathan Irish, timed to the National Park Service's 110th anniversary. It is the largest single nature-photography drop the Art Store has had in some time, and it arrives as an official, curated alternative to the free public-domain wildlife and landscape sourcing this site has covered before. This guide covers what is actually in the collection, which models support it, how to set Art Mode for landscape photography, five ways to style it by room, a bezel guide built around natural materials, and six copy-paste AI prompt seeds for filling in the gaps the curated 40 will not cover on their own.

What's actually in the collection

The 40 photographs come from Jonathan Irish, a photographer known for large-format National Park landscape work, and the National Park Foundation partnership frames the collection as both an art drop and a conservation-awareness effort ahead of the National Park Service's 110th year. Rather than a single park or a single kind of shot, the collection spans several distinct scene types — which matters for how you set Art Mode, since a granite cliff face and a night sky full of stars want very different brightness and color handling.

If you have followed this site's free wildlife and nature photography guide and built your own rotation from USFWS or NPS gallery downloads, this is the same general subject matter delivered as a pre-cleared, pre-curated Art Store collection instead of a DIY sourcing project — the trade-off is less control over exactly which shot you get, in exchange for zero licensing research and (likely) a Frame-TV-ready 4K export from the start.

Which TVs support it

Coverage of the announcement lists The Frame, The Frame Pro, and Samsung's newer OLED models as supported. Since the collection is an Art Store add rather than a firmware feature, it should reach any Frame TV or Art-Mode-capable OLED whose Art Store app is current — the same general model-support pattern this site has covered before for other 2026 Art Store and Art Mode features. If your TV's Art Store catalog looks unchanged, checking for a pending software update is the first troubleshooting step before assuming the collection has not reached your region yet.

Art Mode settings for landscape photography

The one rule that applies across every shot in this collection: keep Art Effect off (or Auto, which detects photographic content and leaves it alone on 2025/2026 models). Canvas or watercolor texture simulation is built for painted art and actively fights photographic detail — the whole point of a national-park photograph is the fine texture of rock, bark, and star field that Art Effect would otherwise soften.

Five ways to style the collection by room

1. Living room “window” wall

A single rock-formation or coastline shot run at living-room brightness reads as the closest thing Art Mode gets to an actual window — the effect this whole category of art is chasing.

2. Home office focus wall

Forest and ancient-tree scenes at a calmer, lower brightness make a strong background for a desk without competing with a video call — muted greens and browns hold up well behind a face on camera, unlike a high-saturation abstract piece.

3. Cabin or lodge-styled living space

If your home already leans into natural wood, stone, and plaid textiles, this collection is close to a direct match — no styling translation needed the way a gallery abstract piece would require.

4. Home cinema or dark room, night-sky rotation

The night-sky photographs are the one direction in this collection built for a dark room specifically — run per our dark room and home cinema guide's low-brightness settings rather than the daytime table above.

5. Seasonal supplement, not a full-time swap

Forty photographs is a real collection but not an endless one — treating it as one rotation inside a larger seasonal calendar, alongside your own uploads, avoids the “seen it all already” fatigue a smaller fixed set can produce after a few months of daily display.

Bezel guide for national park photography

Landscape photography of this kind pairs naturally with natural-material bezels rather than a stark modern finish — Modern Teak or Sand Gold Metal from Samsung's own lineup, or Burlwood or Antique Brass from Deco TV Frames' third-party range, echo the same wood-and-stone palette the photography itself is drawn from. Reserve Modern White or Charcoal Black for a more minimalist room where the photograph itself is doing all the visual work and a bezel is meant to disappear rather than participate.

Beyond the 40: AI prompts to fill the gaps

Forty curated photographs will not cover every park, every season, or every wall's exact proportions and palette. A room-matched, custom-generated companion piece fills in around the curated collection rather than competing with it — six starting prompts below, each written for the Frame TV's 3840×2160 frame:

• Desert canyon at golden hour: “Photorealistic landscape of a red sandstone canyon at golden hour, dramatic side lighting, long shadows, clear sky, national park photography style, no text”
• Alpine lake and granite peaks: “Photorealistic alpine lake reflecting snow-capped granite mountains, still water, early morning light, national park photography style, no text”
• Redwood forest canopy: “Photorealistic old-growth redwood forest, shafts of light through the canopy, moss-covered forest floor, misty atmosphere, no text”
• Rocky coastline at sunset: “Photorealistic rocky Atlantic coastline at sunset, waves breaking against dark rocks, warm sky, national park photography style, no text”
• Night sky over a desert landscape: “Photorealistic night sky over a desert rock formation, Milky Way visible, dark-sky preserve photography style, deep blue and violet tones, no text”
• Autumn aspen grove: “Photorealistic grove of golden aspen trees in autumn, white bark, clear blue sky, national park photography style, no text”

Five common mistakes

• Leaving Art Effect on. Texture simulation built for painted art softens the fine rock, bark, and star detail that makes this category of photography work in the first place.
• Running night-sky photography at daytime brightness. A star field at brightness 45–55 washes out completely — drop to 10–25 and treat it like any other dark-room piece.
• Pairing it with a stark white or glossy-finish bezel. A cool, modern bezel fights the earthy, natural palette these photographs are built from; a wood-tone finish reads as a coherent choice instead.
• Assuming every Frame TV model automatically has it. Check your TV's Art Store app directly rather than assuming — a pending software update is the first thing to rule out if the collection is missing.
• Treating 40 photographs as a permanent, full-time rotation. Mixing the collection into a broader seasonal calendar with your own uploads avoids running out of variety within a season.

Quick reference

A curated, official collection like this one is a genuinely easy way to fill a Frame TV with national-park photography without doing any licensing homework yourself — but forty images, however well chosen, will not match every wall's exact palette or proportions the way a custom-generated piece can.