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American

12,445 works

Oil sketch of a sunlit rock cliff with red autumn vines beside a river and wooded hills under a pale blue sky.

Autumn Landscape with Large Rock, North Carolina

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a small fan palm with a textured trunk and radiating fan fronds, with handwritten color notes beside it.

Small Fan Palm, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a sandy plain, mountain range, shrub, rocks and folding chair, with handwritten colour notes.

Sandy Plain and Mountain Range, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Sketch of sailing fishing boats on water near a rocky beach, with a group of people standing on the sand.

Beach Scene with People and Fishing Boats, Cullercoats, England

Winslow Homer, 1880

Pencil sketch of a standing man in eighteenth-century coat and breeches with one hand on his hip, on cream paper.

Ship's Figurehead of Benjamin Franklin

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a coconut palm trunk and drooping fronds with a small leaf study and handwritten notes on pale paper.

Coconut Palm, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and ridges receding into the distance, with handwritten notes above describing the landscape.

Landscape near San Miguel de Chimbo, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of clouds and distant hills with trees and a small building on tan paper.

Cloud Sketch, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Monochrome drawing of a sailboat on a marsh with haystacks, a flock of birds overhead, and distant spires.

Sailboat and Haystacks on Newbury Marsh

American School, n.d.

Loose sketch of sunlit mountain peak above a shadowed valley and dark evergreen trees under a pale sky.

Mountains near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of tall conifers along a wooded lakeshore with low hills and an empty sky behind them.

Wooded Lakeshore

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch on grey-blue paper of a palm tree and a tree trunk with branches, with handwritten labels.

Botanical Sketches from the Río Magdalena, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of a large white iceberg above dark green sea, with smaller icebergs in the foreground under a muted sky.

Icebergs of Twillingate, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of layered mountain ridges on tan paper, with handwritten notes about light in the lower right corner.

Mountain Landscape on the Road to Mocha, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and white highlight sketch of a river valley with a distant city skyline and handwritten colour notes.

View of Damascus from the Wadi Barada, Syria, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a winding road beside a wooden fence leading into a valley with mountains and trees.

Winding Mountain Road in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of snowy Andean peaks under clouds, with handwritten notes reading Cayambe near Quito at lower left.

Cayambe, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a wooded ridge with sunlight rays on cream paper, with a faint blue outline at right.

Sunlight Cresting a Wooded Ridge

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Hazy Catskill mountains rise above a pastoral valley with white farmhouses, trees, and fields under streaked clouds.

The Catskill Mountains from the Village of Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a building at upper left and mountain peaks below, with handwritten notes.

Sketches of a Building and Mountains, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Pencil sketch of a Mexican landscape with distant mountains, a sun in the sky, and foreground hills and shrubs.

Mexican Landscape

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of clouds and a river shoreline with handwritten color notes.

Smoke on the Hudson River, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a craggy mountain above trees and low buildings, inscribed Bavaria, on tan paper.

Mountain in Bavaria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Charcoal sketch of three soldiers in kepi caps holding upright rifles, with faint figures of a drilling formation behind them

Soldiers Drilling

Winslow Homer, 1860

Architectural elevation drawing of a multi-story factory building facade with rows of windows and a cornice.

Brunswick Balke and Collender Company Factory Building, Chicago, Illinois, Elevation

Adler & Sullivan, Architects, 1891

Graphite anatomical sketches of heads, necks, shoulders and arms on tan paper, with handwritten muscle labels.

Anatomical Sketches of the Head, Neck, and Shoulders

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a rugged cliff with rock layers, a sloping path, and a fence with cactus in the foreground.

Rugged Cliff, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Small sketch of rose-colored rock cliffs with carved facades, a camel and rider, under a pale blue and pink sky.

Jabal al-Habis, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketches of castle towers, flags, and figures including a woman holding a child and a man in a hat on tan paper.

Architecture and Figure Sketches, Thun, Switzerland

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil outline of a mountain ridgeline with a tall central peak on grey paper, labeled Katahdin from Katahdin Lake.

Cut-out of Mt. Katahdin from Katahdin Lake, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of grass blades clustered at upper left on pale paper, with handwritten inscription above.

Arrangement of Grass, Catskill, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Pencil sketch of the Acropolis and Parthenon in Athens seen across a plain, with rocky hills at right and handwritten color n

View of the Acropolis from Lycabettus Hill, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860