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Painting of two brown birds on a bamboo branch with green leaves against a golden silk background, with red seals.

Two birds swinging on a branch of bamboo

Landscape painting of misty mountains, a river, and travelers resting at a thatched roadside inn beside a footbridge.

Way-station and travelers

Painting of a robed horseman holding a hawk while his horse grazes, ink and color on a warm silk ground.

A Tatar horseman with a hawk

Handscroll landscape with green and blue mountains, pavilions, and a red sunrise over a misty sea.

Ocean sky, rising sun

Ink painting of a boatman poling a small boat through rapids below a tall cliff with overhanging trees.

Shooting rapids under high cliffs

Traditionally attributed to Wu Zhen, 1300

Two sparrows on a branch with red pomegranate blossoms, split pomegranates and green leaves on a golden silk ground.

Birds, fruit, and flowers

Pale dragon with horns and claws among dark swirling clouds on a brown silk ground, with waves at lower left.

Dragon among clouds

Traditionally attributed to Chen Rong, 1640

Ink painting on silk of a seated monk gesturing to a young attendant beside tall rocks and banana plants.

Mending clothes in the early morning sun

Hanging scroll of Manjushri, an elderly bodhisattva with a white beard, seated on a lion above a swirling cloud.

Manjushri seated on a lion

Painting of red and pink flowers, thorny branches and insects including a praying mantis and butterflies on brown silk.

Flowers and insects

Qiu Yuqing, 1500

Painting of two phoenixes with long plumage among broad leaves of a tree on a brown silk ground.

Pair of phoenixes on a firmiana tree

Bian Luan, 1500

Hanging scroll of towering layered mountains with small pavilions, travelers on a path, and bare trees in ochre and green ton

Bringing a lute to visit a friend

Full-length portrait of a standing man in black with white hair, hand on a document at a desk beside a globe and column.

James Madison

Thomas Sully, 1800

Portrait of a man in a dark coat with red facings, sash, and tall embroidered black hat, before a wooded landscape.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Henry Benbridge, 1770

Oil portrait of a man in a dark green coat and white head wrap, seated against a brown background, 1830.

Catahecassa (Black Hoof)

Henry Inman, 1830

Oil portrait of a young girl with auburn curls in a blue dress holding a vase of pink and yellow flowers, 1870.

Edith Wharton

Edward Harrison May, 1870

Oval portrait of a smiling woman with dark hair, chin resting on her hand, against a warm brown background.

Lady Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon

Franz von Lenbach, 1900

Colour print of a crowd before a columned classical building with a clock tower and balcony spectators.

Inauguration of Davis

James Massalon, 1870

Muted autumn landscape with bare trees, rust-colored shrubs and a hazy yellow sky, painted in soft brushwork.

November

Dwight William Tryon, 1900

Painting of a man carrying a pole across an autumn field past haystacks and a birch tree under a cloudy sky.

Return from the Farm

Elliott Daingerfield, 1920

Painting of a bearded man seated in an armchair reading a small book in a dim room lined with bookshelves.

Portrait of Sanford Saltus of New York

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a seated woman in a red gown in an ornate room, with a prisoner behind bars at left and a figure with a candle at

Prisoner's Plea

Josephine Joy, 1933

Bust-length portrait of a man with wavy dark hair, white collar and bow tie, against a warm brown background.

Charles Sumner

William Page, 1870

Sketch of a winged figure in red drapery with a halo, seated on a stone ledge within an arched frame.

Sketch for the Mural at Oberlin College, "The Spirit of Self-Sacrificing Love"

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Painting of a man guiding two red oxen pulling a log-laden cart in a sunlit forest clearing, with a boy carrying an axe.

Untitled (boy and man with oxen)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a blue dress and red shoes, holding cherries beside a rose bush with a yellow butterf

Portrait of Adelia Ellender

Joshua Johnson, 1800

Painting of a man with a feathered headdress holding a spear, standing on a forest path beside a stream.

Zaparo Stock

Antonio Zeno Shindler, 1890

Half-length portrait of a man with red face paint, feathered headdress, beaded collar and fringed buckskin shirt against a mu

Sha-có-pay, The Six, Chief of the Plains Ojibwa

George Catlin, 1830

Ton-had-dle

Elbridge Ayer Burbank, 1890

Full-length portrait of a standing woman in beaded bodice, layered necklaces, patterned shawl and red leggings, with a landsc

Wife of Kee-o-kúk

George Catlin, 1830