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National Gallery of Art

10,102 works

Painting of a rocky cliff over calm harbor water with sailboats and a fisherman on the shore under a clear sky.

Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor

John Frederick Kensett, 1857

Painting of the white paddle steamer St. Lawrence on choppy water with red pennants, a flag, and a smoking funnel.

Steamer "St. Lawrence"

James Bard, 1850

Oval painting of a tepee village on a grassy plain with a river, a flagpole, and riders on horseback on hills.

Fort Pierre

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Family portrait of a seated woman, a standing man, and two boys in green jackets against green drapery and a red sofa.

Family Portrait

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1804

Folk painting of the Berks County Almshouse complex with farm fields, cattle, carriages, and small vignettes of surrounding b

Berks County Almshouse, 1878

Charles C. Hofmann, 1878

Painted facsimile of an Ojibbeway robe showing rows of small animals, birds, celestial symbols and objects on a tan field.

Facsimile of an Ojibbeway Robe

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of two acrobats balancing on a galloping brown horse in a circus ring, with a blue scarf and teal curtain behind.

The Mounted Acrobats

Unknown artist, 1825 or after

Folk painting of the Berks County Almshouse in 1895 with brick buildings, gardens, cattle, carriages and framed rural vignett

Berks County Almshouse, 1895

Louis Mader, 1895

Night river scene with torch-lit canoes, figures spearing fish, dark reeds on the left and a calm water expanse.

Salmon Spearing - Ottowas

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of villagers in period dress beating flax at a rustic log cabin farm, with a dog, haystack and campfire.

Flax Scutching Bee

Linton Park, 1885

Group portrait of a man in a top hat and several children in a wooded setting with rocks, a hen, and a stream.

Abraham Clark and His Children

J. H., 1822

Painting of figures in feathered headdresses gathered around a seated figure and wooden enclosure in a forest clearing.

Funeral of Black Hawk - Saukie

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a riverside scene with a carriage, gathered mourners at an open pit, sailboats on the water, and large trees.

The Exhumation

Linton Park, c. 1890

Family group portrait in a patterned room with a standing man in top hat, a seated woman with infant, children and a dog.

The Sargent Family

Unknown artist, 1800

Painting of painted warriors with red headdresses performing a war dance on a grassy field, with tepees and a house in the di

War Dance of the Saukies

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Painting of a man in a top hat driving a brown trotting horse in a light sulky across a racetrack with trees behind.

The Trotter

Charles S. Humphreys, c. 1860

Painting of a man writing at a desk with two children and a small bird on a tiled floor, framed by coral scrollwork.

At the Writing Table

Unknown artist, c. 1790

Painting of three Navaho figures on a grassy plain: a woman in a patterned blanket and two men with arrows and a feathered he

Three Navaho Indians

George Catlin, 1861/1869

Black dog carrying a hare through a snowy clearing with pine trees, a hunter at right, and grey hills beyond.

Retriever

O. G., second half 19th century

Painting of a harbor with a burning town on the right, sailing ships firing cannons, and smoke over Boston on the left.

Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town

Unknown artist, 1783 or after

Four men in feathered headdresses and body paint stand with spears and bows against a pale sky, with a painted robe.

Apachee Chief and Three Warriors

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Two rowers in a red racing scull on a river, with a steamboat and wooded shoreline behind them.

The Biglin Brothers Racing

Thomas Eakins, 1872

Painting of a snowy New England farm in winter with a woman, child, cows, geese, and chickens near a green house.

New England Farm in Winter

Unknown artist, 1850 or after

Painting of four Apache figures in feathered headdresses and fringed clothing, with a woman carrying an infant, on a green an

Four Apachee Indians

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of wooden boats on a pebble beach beside a rock arch over turquoise sea, with stone houses and laundry above.

Marina Piccola, Capri

William Stanley Haseltine, c. 1858

Naive painting of white mansion with red roof and cupola, with strolling figures, a dog, and a carriage on a lawn.

A View of Mount Vernon

Unknown artist, 1792 or after

Painting of two Apache warriors with feathered headdresses and a standing woman in a green skirt against a grassland.

Two Apachee Warriors and a Woman

George Catlin, 1855/1869

Painting of a garden with plant rows, large trees, a farmhouse with chimneys, and a wooden fence under a blue sky.

The Artist's Garden

Ralph Albert Blakelock, c. 1879/1889

Naive painting of a white obelisk monument among tall trees, with figures by a white picket fence and a rider on a white hors

Lexington Battle Monument

Unknown artist, 1853 or after

Four Navaho warriors in feathered headdresses and fringed leggings stand on a grassy plain, one pointing, one holding a spear

Four Navaho Warriors

George Catlin, 1861/1869