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Painting of sunlit ocean surf breaking over rocks, with distant islands on the horizon under a pale sky.

Surf, Isles of Shoals

Childe Hassam, 1913

Painting of a sunlit water garden with white flowers, water lilies, a small footbridge, and trees along a pond.

The Water Garden

Childe Hassam, 1909

Oil still life of a pedestal fruit bowl, pomegranates, pears and grapes on a red round tray against grey tones.

Still Life No. 2

Marsden Hartley, 1921

Painting of a dark mountain framed by gnarled bare trees, rocks in the foreground, and swirling pale clouds above.

The Dark Mountain, No. 2

Marsden Hartley, 1909

Painting of five fishermen in hats seated and standing on a wooden dock with lobster traps, rope, and a blue bay behind them.

Lobster Fishermen

Marsden Hartley

Painting of a brown hill with a cemetery of crosses, white clouds over blue sky, and desert trees in the foreground.

Cemetery, New Mexico

Marsden Hartley, 1924

Painting of rolling maroon and rust hills under swirling purple clouds, with a pale blue river and green fields in the foregr

Autumn Color

Marsden Hartley, 1910

Painting of a New Mexico canyon with red rock cliffs, boulders, sagebrush, and blue mountains under clouds.

Landscape, New Mexico

Marsden Hartley, 1919

Calm sea under a glowing orange sunset, with the sun low on the horizon and light shimmering on the water.

Sunset on the Sea

John Frederick Kensett, 1872

Painting of snow-capped Teton peaks above a rushing river, boulders, pine trees and a red rock spire under a pale sky.

The Teton Range

Thomas Moran, 1897

Ink drawing on silk of a woman in loose robes reclining on a banana leaf, with a small vessel beside her.

Beauty Sleeping on a Banana Leaf

Ink painting on a fan leaf of dark bamboo stalks and leaves with Chinese calligraphy and red seals on the right.

唐寅筆春雷風竹図

Brown wash drawing of a seated woman in drapery pointing with a staff, beside a small building, with mountains behind.

Europe

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1747

Brown wash drawing of a woman in a headscarf riding a donkey and holding palm fronds, with a distant landscape.

Asia

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1747

Painting of St. John the Baptist's beheading in a courtyard, with Salome holding the head on a platter and a banquet behind.

The beheading of St. John the Baptist, Salome dancing during the banquet of Herod in the background

Bernard van Orley, 1514

Dark painted interior of a crowded courtroom with figures seated around a raised bench under a hanging lamp.

Recess of the Court

Jean-Louis Forain, 1872

Ink album leaf of two deer beside a pine branch on rocks, facing a page of vertical Chinese calligraphy with red seals.

Album

Bada Shanren, 1644

Ink painting on silk of several birds perched on branches, with soft grey washes and loose brushwork.

Birds in a lotus pond

Bada Shanren, 1690

Woman with a wicker basket walks a muddy path holding a child's hand across a misty flat landscape at dusk.

Going Home

Fritz von Uhde, 1889

Woman in white dress and black hat resting in a dark rowboat on a still lake with reddish shoreline foliage.

Mrs. Chase in Prospect Park

William Merritt Chase, 1886

Armed riders in turbans gallop past a white horse through a sunlit street with arched stone buildings and a balcony.

The Night Patrol at Smyrna

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1823

Painted garland of roses and tulips framing an oval relief of playing putti above a marble plinth.

Winter

Anne Vallayer-Coster, 1750

Wide painting of a Roman-style triumphal procession with a chariot, white horses, crowds, an arch and classical temples.

The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus

Carle Vernet, 1789

Abstracted painting of billowing clouds over green hills, with three sailboats on rough teal water below.

Clouds and Water

Arthur Dove, 1930

Painting of a cream fishing boat with green trim, angular orange and brown rigging, and layered green abstract background.

Fishboat

Arthur Dove, 1930

Abstract painting of rolling grey and brown waves with white foam dots and wavy blue forms on the left.

Reaching Waves

Arthur Dove, 1929

Watercolor and ink abstract of sweeping green trees, a silver ball, and a barge with windows beneath red hills.

Silver Ball, Barge, and Trees

Arthur Dove, 1930

Three women in kimono stroll a riverbank beside a willow tree, with sailboats on the water at dusk.

Three Girls on a Riverbank

Fan painting on gold ground: a reclining man by rocks, a woman playing an instrument on a leaf, and a woman beside a fruit ba

明/清陳洪綬竹石蛺蝶圖扇面

Handscroll painting of a seated robed figure in a pavilion, attendants on steps, and horses led beside trees.

南宋傳李唐晉文公復國圖卷