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Brown-toned drawing of a dense forest with tall trees, a fallen log, and dappled light on the floor.

Study for "June Woods"

William Trost Richards, 1860

Pencil sketch of a dirt street lined with raised wooden houses, hanging laundry, and a small church tower in the distance.

Street Scene, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Watercolor of a Norwegian fjord with glowing mountain peaks, a grassy shore and two birch trees beside calm turquoise water.

Fjord in Norway

William Trost Richards, 1900

Pencil sketch of a hazy landscape with a rocky foreground, distant trees, a small building and handwritten colour notes.

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

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Sunset over a distant mountain range with orange glow, grey clouds and a broad brown plain in the foreground.

Sunset

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pen and brown ink sketch of herdsmen and cattle moving through a landscape with trees, clouds and distant hills.

Study for the Painting Pastoral Journey, Figures and Cattle in a Landscape

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Pencil sketch of cloudy sky over hills and water on green-grey paper, with handwritten color notes.

Cloudy Sky over Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Oil sketch of a tree-lined hillside at sunset with pink clouds and a distant blue mountain ridge.

Hillside at Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketch of clouds and a distant shoreline with handwritten colour notes in the upper right corner.

Clouds at Sunset, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch with white highlights of water tumbling over a rocky rim at Niagara Falls.

Rim of the American Falls, Niagara River

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of stone ruins and scattered masonry blocks on rough ground beneath a pale sky, with handwritten notes below.

Ruins on Abel's Mountain, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painted coastal sunset with red clouds over a calm sea, dark evergreen trees and rocks on the left shore.

Schoodic Peninsula from Mt. Desert Island at Sunrise, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil sketch of a sunset over green hills with orange and gold clouds and dark tree silhouettes in the foreground.

Hilltop at Sunset, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of an arched interior with a fan-shaped niche and Corinthian columns, with handwritten caption at lower right.

Interior, Temple of Phaena at Al-Masmiyah, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of sheep grazing and resting in a field beside trees and a shaded bank.

Sheep Grazing

Winslow Homer, 1870

Hazy alpine valley with layered mountain ridges, snow-capped peaks in the distance, and a rocky slope in the foreground.

The Watzmann and Schönfeldspitze, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Red chalk drawing of a garden with a curved colonnade, tiered fountain, draped statue on a pedestal, and figures under trees.

Park with Fountain and Statue

Hubert Robert, 1780

Loose oil sketch of an autumn forest with tall trunks, orange and red leaves on the ground, and hills in the distance.

Woods in Autumn

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch on tan paper of snow-covered alpine peaks above a shadowed valley, with a small moon in the sky.

Mountain over the Hintersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Loose oil sketch of a brown hillside with yellow grass and a purple mountain under a pale ochre sky.

Hillside

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Watercolor of Yellowstone hot springs with white and orange mineral terraces, a dark pool, and a forested hill under clouds.

Yellowstone, Hot Springs

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of Mount Katahdin with rolling hills, conifers and a rocky foreground on tan paper.

Mt. Katahdin from the East, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Faint pencil sketch of a sky study with handwritten notes about silvery light and a luminous streak, labeled Aurora.

Aurora over the Hudson Valley, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of an alpine valley with peaks, tree-lined slopes, a winding path and handwritten colour notes.

Mount Holy Cross

Thomas Moran, 1870

Pencil sketch of ruined classical columns and scattered stone blocks, with handwritten colour notes across the top.

The Parthenon from the North, Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pen and ink drawing of a lake with a sailboat, wooded shoreline, and a distant mountain under a hatched sky.

Imaginary Lake Landscape with a Distant Mountain

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of the rounded South Dome granite peak in Yosemite above a winding river valley.

The South Dome, Yosemite

Thomas Moran, 1900

Orange sunset sky with three blue light rays, a crescent moon, and hazy mountains over a flat brown plain.

Sunset over the Hudson Valley

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of thatched-roof houses on sandy ground, with a woman standing in a doorway and a wooden fence at left.

Two Houses in Barranquilla, Colombia

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Charcoal sketch of two men paddling a canoe on rippling water beneath trees and a hatched, stormy sky.

Canoe with Two Men

Winslow Homer, 1890