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American

12,325 works

Watercolor of a boat house with yellow roof, sailboats and rowboats on blue water, a leaning tree, and a wooden fence.

The Boat House

Charles Hechter, 1940

Mural study of cotton harvesting, ginning, and shipping with workers in a field, a factory, and beside a steam train.

Cotton Growing, Manufacture and Export (mural study, Dardanelle, Arkansas Post Office)

Ludwig Mactarian, 1938

Painting of a covered fish market with hanging fish, wooden stalls, and shoppers moving between vendors.

Fish Market

Alberta Kinsey, 1934

Painting of a seated man playing a teal accordion, with expressive dark brushwork and a mauve background.

Accordion Player

Donald Forbes, 1939

Painting of a woman in blue seated at an upright piano in a blue-walled room with a patterned rug and lamp.

Quiet Hour

Cecil Clark Davis, 1940

Three-panel mural study of lawgivers Menes, Moses and Hammurabi with seated, standing and kneeling figures in muted earth ton

Menes, Moses, Hammurabi (mural study, "The Law Givers," U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

Boardman Robinson, 1935

Watercolor of steam locomotive 64 marked Pacific Line on tracks, with a wooden ladder and flat green and turquoise ground.

Pacific Line

Douglas Brown, 1937

Painting of couples dancing in a rural dance hall with a fiddler and guitarist, cowboy hats, and a horseshoe on the wall.

Cowboy Dance (mural study, Anson, Texas Post Office)

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1941

Mural study of adobe pueblo, desert, Native runners and women on left, Spanish explorers in armor on right.

Communication during the Period of Exploration (panel number 2) (mural study, Phoenix, Arizona Post Office)

Oscar E. Berninghaus, 1937

Painting of craggy yellow rock formations, a red-spired church, and barbed wire under a dark stormy sky.

S.F. Ruins, No. 1

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Watercolor of a rugged mountain range with dark evergreen slopes, pale rock faces, and yellow and red shrubs in the foregroun

Great Range

Lewis C. Daniel, 1940

Painting of billowing lavender clouds over a pale field with small trees and colorful flowering shrubs in the foreground.

The Storm

Abram Molarsky, 1934

Oil portrait of an elderly Navajo man in a red headwrap and geometric woven blanket against a golden background.

Tlizzy-Thlanny

Carl Moon, 1940

Miniature portrait of a young boy in a navy jacket with a white ruffled collar against a pale blue sky.

Samuel Bowden

Samuel Bowden, 1950

Painting of a green meadow and calm creek with trees and a distant white domed building under a hazy sky.

Mouth of James Creek

De Lancey Gill, 1940

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white cravat against a blue sky background.

Ira Allen

William Wood, 1940

Watercolor landscape of green trees around a pond, with a red church spire in the distance under pink and blue clouds.

Untitled - A. H. O. Rolle, 1940

A. H. O. Rolle, 1940

Painting of two pack mules with bundles and riders crossing desert sand toward red mesas, with a woman carrying a child in th

Going Home with the Harvest

Carl Moon, 1940

Oil portrait of an older man with a mustache in a dark suit and white collar, one hand resting on a table, against a dark bac

William T. Evans

Alphonse Jongers, 1940

Painting of three nude women in a landscape with a blue lake, trees, and golden hills under a pale sky.

Nudes in Landscape

Arnold Friedman, 1940

Woman in yellow fringed dress playing flute beside a resting bear, a pale dog and a white cat under a tree.

The Flute Player

Edwin Willard Deming, 1940

Painting of a thatched cottage, cows by a river, and a distant windmill under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Windmill

E. Landseer Harris, 1950

Nighttime rural scene with a red barn, white house, glowing utility pole light, and a dark road under a black sky.

Bright Light at Russell's Corners

George Ault, 1946

Watercolor of a studio interior with a red wood stove, black stovepipe, wooden staircase, easel, and small framed flower pain

Studio Interior

George Ault, 1949

Painting of a large aloe plant with four tall red and yellow flower spikes against a dry landscape and blue mountains.

Aloes

Josephine Joy, 1935

Naive painting of a cream cottage with red tile roof, garden of flowers and trees, woman playing harp beside a dog, and a pon

Irish Cottage

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of white magnolia blossoms and buds among dark glossy leaves, with speckled seed pods, on a grey background.

Magnolia Blossoms

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of mouflon and bobtailed sheep in a wire-fenced enclosure with a log shelter and eucalyptus trees behind.

Moufflon--Bobtailed Sheep

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of a seated woman in red facing a man at a barred doorway, with a servant holding a candle in an ornate room.

Prisoner's Plea

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of a whitewashed mission church with bell tower and eucalyptus trees, with a robed figure on a dirt path.

San Diego Mission

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of four peacocks, some perched on a railing and branches and two displaying fanned tails, beneath a drooping willow.

Trysting at Evening

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of white herons nesting in a bare tree with woven baskets, a ladder, a blue pond and rocks below.

Waterbirds Nesting

Josephine Joy, 1935