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American

12,325 works

Painting of a seated nude woman in golden tones on a red cloth before a dark, muted landscape with distant hills.

A Bather

Robert Loftin Newman, 1800s

Oil portrait of a man in a black coat and white cravat, head turned, hand resting at lower left, against a gray background.

Senator Thomas Hart Benton

Matthew Harris Jouett, 1820s

Oval oil portrait of a man with curly dark hair, black coat and white cravat against a soft gray background.

Benjamin Rouse

John Wesley Jarvis, 1819

Painted river landscape with autumn trees and a hillside under a heavy gray cloudy sky.

Gray Day on the Esopus

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1882

Painting of a green valley with orchard trees, a small farmhouse, and dark hills under a cloudy sky.

Montclair, New Jersey

George Inness, c. 1878

Painting of an ancient paved road lined with pines, cypresses, and ruined stone walls under a pale sky.

The Appian Way

Edward Bruce, c. 1929

Painting of a gray, overcast harbor with small moored boats, a wooden pier, and distant ships and smokestacks along the shore

Gray Day on the Bay

William Merritt Chase, c. 1886

Oil portrait of a seated man in a brown coat writing with a quill pen, glancing upward, dark background.

Colonel William Leete Stone

William Page, 1839

Painting of riders on donkeys on a sandy road toward the sea, with a fountain, tree, fruit basket and goats.

The Road to the Sea

Henry Keller, 1923

Painting of a rocky natural arch over green water, with a sailing ship on calm sea and hazy mountains beyond.

Natural Bridge, Sorrento

William Stanley Haseltine, 1856

Woman in blue dress hanging white laundry on a line between brick city buildings, standing on a fire escape with a basket.

A Woman's Work

John Sloan, 1912

Dark painted landscape of trees under a turbulent pale sky, with a small tent barely visible in the left woods.

Indian Camp

Ralph Albert Blakelock, c. 1890

Painting of harvesters working in a golden wheat field under dark storm clouds, with green trees and distant farm buildings b

The Wheat Field

George Inness, c. 1875-77

Painting of a sandy Brittany coast at low tide with dark trees, distant buildings, rocks and a bright blue sky with clouds.

Pointe de Cabellou, Brittany

William Lamb Picknell, 1881

Portrait of a woman in a black dress and lace bonnet with a white neck ribbon, set against a brown background.

Sally Avery Olds

Jeptha Homer Wade, 1837

Portrait of a seated man in a black coat and white cravat holding a book, with a red chair and garden background.

Frederic Betts

Henry Inman, 1830s

Oil portrait of a young woman in a white dress and teal sash beside a stone urn, against a dark cloudy sky.

Mary Ward Betts

Henry Inman, 1830s

Two companion portraits: a seated man in black holding a book, and a woman in white beside a stone urn.

Frederic Betts; Mary Ward Betts

Henry Inman, 1830s

Oil portrait of a man in a dark coat and white pleated cravat against a brown background, c. 1810.

John Scoville

Ezra Ames, c. 1810

Portrait of an older woman in a white bonnet, lace collar and brown shawl, seated in a green chair against red drapery.

Sarah Eliot Scoville

Asher Brown Durand, 1830s

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a peach polka-dot dress with black trim, standing before a lake and castle landscape.

Minnie Willard

Archibald Willard, 1860s

Small painting of draped women walking toward the sea on a sandy shore, with figures seated at left under a warm sky.

The Music Party

Elihu Vedder, c. 1875

Painting of turbulent river rapids among rocks, with misty Niagara Falls in the distance and a wooded bluff at right.

View of Niagara Falls

John Frederick Kensett, c. 1851-1852

Loose painted beach scene with a seated woman in a red hat and bathers splashing in white surf; reverse study of figures in w

In the Surf (recto); Beach Study (verso)

Edward Henry Potthast, c. 1910

Loose brushwork beach scene of bathers in surf, with a woman in yellow blouse and red hat seated on sand.

In the Surf (recto)

Edward Henry Potthast, c. 1910

Oval miniature portrait of a young man in a dark blue coat and white cravat, turned to the right, in a gold pendant frame.

James Alexander Ross Cuthbert

Edward Greene Malbone, 1799

Half-length portrait of a man in a black coat and white cravat against a red drapery background.

William Vans Murray

Mather Brown, 1787

Group portrait of a family in an interior with a map, globe, red drapery, and a standing servant at right.

The Washington Family

Edward Savage, 1789-1796

Portrait of a gray-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat against a deep red background.

Joseph Coolidge

Gilbert Stuart, 1820

Portrait of a seated man in grey coat and white ruffled cravat, with powdered hair, resting his arm on a wooden chair.

Lawrence Reid Yates

Gilbert Stuart, 1793/1794

Oil portrait of a woman in a white bonnet and grey gown threading a needle, seated before a dark brown background.

Catherine Brass Yates (Mrs. Richard Yates)

Gilbert Stuart, 1793/1794

Oil portrait of an older man with white powdered hair, dark coat and white cravat against a red background.

George Washington (Vaughan-Sinclair portrait)

Gilbert Stuart, 1795