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14,981 works

Watercolor of a busy harbor street with tall ships, brick warehouses, barrels, and men in top hats.

View of South Street, from Maiden Lane, New York City

William James Bennett, ca. 1827

Pastel drawing of jockeys on racehorses crossing a grassy track with a distant town and church spire.

Race Horses

Edgar Degas, ca. 1885-88

Pastel drawing of a dirt road lined with blossoming trees, a wooden shed and small figures on tan paper.

Spring Landscape

Robert Frederick Blum

Watercolor of a tree-lined avenue leading to the domed Capitol with flags and pedestrians, 1824.

View of the Capitol

Charles W. Burton, 1824

Pencil and chalk drawing of a forest stream with a kneeling figure drinking beside a fallen tree and boulder.

The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death Thirst

Thomas Cole, 1843

Watercolor of a sunlit Japanese street with wooden shops, a vendor at a stall, women in kimono and chickens on the dirt path.

Street Scene in Ikao, Japan

Robert Frederick Blum

Brown wash drawing of robed apostles gazing upward as winged angels point to the sky over a hilly landscape.

Study for "The Ascension"

John Singleton Copley, 1774

Graphite drawing of a nude male figure reaching toward a draped female figure, with a squared grid and a classical urn behind

Science Instructing Industry: Nude Study

Kenyon Cox, 1898

Watercolor of a seated man reading a newspaper, a woman holding an infant, a table with fruit and books, and a wall clock.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child

Joseph H. Davis, 1834

Pencil study on blue paper of a figure draped over a cannon, pulling down a staff, with faint grid lines.

Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figure Astride Cannon Pulling Down Spanish Colors

John Singleton Copley, 1785-86

Watercolor of Union Park in New York with a tall fountain, iron fence, autumn trees, townhouses, and a couple in the foregrou

Union Park, New York

Sarah Fairchild, ca. 1845

Watercolor of a glowing sunset over a distant city skyline with church spires, framed by dark trees and hills in the foregrou

City and Sunset

Graphite sketches of male figures on blue paper, including an embracing pair in cloaks, by John Singleton Copley.

Study for "The Death of Major Peirson": Group of Dying French Officers

John Singleton Copley, 1782-83

Watercolor of Caesarea Philippi ruins with a camel and travelers on a stone path below rolling hills.

Caesarea Philippi (Banias)

Watercolor of a circular mill with vaned sails beside a New York harbor dock, with a sailing ship and workers.

Circular Mill, King Street, New York

John William Hill, 1830

Charcoal sketch of two fisherwomen with a basket walking across a sandy shore, with a distant figure and boat.

Fisherwomen

Winslow Homer, 1882

Watercolor of two men sawing logs beside a palmetto-thatched hut among tall palms and cypress trees by a misty river.

The Cypress-Shingle Yard, Ocklawaha River, Florida

Harry Fenn, 1870

Watercolor of two figures on a ledge beside a waterfall between steep rock cliffs under a sky streaked with red clouds.

At the Waterfall

David Claypoole Johnston, ca. 1850

Watercolor of wind-bent palm trees and rooftops under a dark storm sky, with turquoise sea at the left edge.

Hurricane, Bahamas

Winslow Homer, 1898

Pencil sketch of a valley between mountains with buildings in the distance and trees in the foreground.

North of the White Mountains

John Frederick Kensett, 1850

Three women carry a long canoe along a grassy shore by the sea, under tropical trees, in a 1891 watercolor.

Girls Carrying a Canoe, Vaiala in Samoa

John La Farge, 1891

Watercolor of white sailboats and a rowboat in turquoise sea, with rusted cannons on sandy shore under a cloudy sky.

Nassau

Winslow Homer, 1899

Pencil drawing of canoes with paddlers crossing a lake toward tipis on a wooded shore, with rocks in the foreground.

Indians Returning from the Hunt (from McGuire Scrapbook)

Charles Lanman, 1841

Pastel watercolor of pink and lavender mountain peaks across a calm strait, with palms and shoreline vegetation in the foregr

The Island of Moorea Looking across the Strait from Tahiti, January 1891

John La Farge, 1891

Watercolor of a man with an axe on his shoulder looking over a sunlit clearing with stumps and distant hills.

The Pioneer

Winslow Homer, 1900

Watercolor of a porched dining room building and stage offices at White Sulphur Springs, surrounded by trees and hills.

Dining Room and Stage Offices at White Sulphur Springs

John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe, 1832

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat sitting and drawing in an open field with a lone tree, by William Sidney Mount, 1840.

Artist Sketching at Stony Brook, New York (from McGuire Scrapbook)

William Sidney Mount, 1840

Watercolor of turquoise surf breaking on dark rocks, with a steamship on the horizon under a grey sky and a lighthouse at lef

Shore and Surf, Nassau

Winslow Homer, 1899

Sepia watercolor of mounted riders and pack mules on grassland beside a winding river, with wooded hills in the distance.

On the Head-Waters--Burgess Finding a Ford

Frederic Remington, ca. 1893

Watercolor of Collect Pond with a rocky hillside, willow tree, three walking figures, and a distant New York skyline with chu

Collect Pond, New York City

Archibald Robertson, 1798