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Painting of uniformed officers gathered under a canvas awning in an oak grove, with a saddled white horse and tents nearby.

Zachary Taylor at Walnut Springs

William Garl Browne Jr, 1861

Portrait of an elderly bearded painter with spectacles, holding a brush, seated before a sunset landscape.

George Inness

Franklin C. Courter, 1920

Painting of carriages and horses on a sandy road by a country house, with two dogs in the foreground and trees around.

August Belmont and Isabel Perry

Wouterus Verschuur, 1850

Oil portrait of a young violinist in a dark jacket and white collar playing violin against a dark green background.

Yehudi Menuhin

Mark S. Joffe, 1930

Painting of mounted Union officers galloping across a dusty field under flags, with horses and dust clouds.

Grant and His Generals

Ole Peter Hansen Balling, 1861

Two men fishing from a rowboat on calm water at sunset, with a fish splashing beside the hull and seagulls overhead.

Grover Cleveland

William F. Kelly, 1890

Group portrait of men in a red-draped room with bookshelves, a tiled floor, a dog, and a window view.

Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside

Christian Schussele, 1860

Man in white turban reclining on red cushions with a hookah on a terrace, a servant at left and a city and mountain behind.

Bayard Taylor

Thomas Hicks, 1850

Group portrait of formally dressed men gathered around a table with a telegraph instrument in a marble-columned interior.

Men of Progress

Christian Schussele, 1860

Pencil portrait of a young boy with short hair and a high collar, drawn on a torn, pale sheet of paper.

Unidentified Boy

George Linen, 1830

Charcoal sketch of a bearded man in the foreground with a second figure reclining behind him, on tan paper.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Anders Zorn, 1890

Matthew Calbraith Perry (with Henry A. Adams)

Furukawa Teiryo, 1850

Aged paper fragment with handwritten receipt text and a flourished signature reading C. W. Peale.

Charles Wilson Peale's autograph

Charles Willson Peale, 1800

Pencil sketch of men in conversation in a columned interior hall, with a saddled horse in the foreground and labeled figures.

Ulysses S. Grant and John Pemberton

Frederick B. Schell, 1861

Brown ink sketch of a female dancer with an arm raised diagonally and draped fabric flowing around her body.

Isadora Duncan

Edmond van Saanen Algi, 1910

Pencil sketch of a mountain landscape with trees and a reflective lake in the foreground, by Alfred R. Waud.

Mount of Temptation and Nazareth

Jane Addams and Alva Belmont

Wallace Morgan, 1910

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly man in a skullcap and spectacles, one hand resting on a table, with ink splatters on his co

Alexander Thomson

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Colourful caricature mural study with a reclining woman, a man serving fruit, a man with cane, a dog, and cherubs in clouds.

Mural Study #3:

John Decker, 1940

Charcoal caricatures: a smiling man in tails holding a top hat, and a figure with windswept hair riding a globe beside a prop

Fred Astaire and Amelia Earhart

Henry Major, 1930

Charcoal sketch of a seated man bent over an open book, with handwritten inscription naming William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells

Orlando Rouland, 1890

Thomas Cole

Frederic Edwin Church, 1840

Charcoal sketch of a man with a bow tie holding a palette and brushes beside an easel in a studio.

Charles Dana Gibson

William Glackens, 1900

Watercolor of a group of men in dark suits gathered around a draped table in a columned interior room.

Men of Progress

Christian Schussele, 1850

Five loose blue crayon head studies of a bearded older man on tan paper, inscribed "Walt Whitman" and dated April 17, 81.

Walt Whitman

Frank Hill Smith, 1880

Sepia drawing of three men playing chess, with caricatured top-hatted chess pieces on the board.

Theodore Roosevelt, John Milton Hay, Joseph Gurney Cannon

Charles Davis Mitchell, 1910

Pencil drawing of two men at an ornate wooden railing, one smiling with papers, the other bearded and reading.

American Royalty

Edward Tennyson Reed, 1900

Engraved political cartoon of a revolver and hands over newsprint reading Tilden or Blood, by Thomas Nast.

Tilden or Blood Compromise - Indeed!

Thomas Nast, 1870

Caricature of four men playing baseball, labeled with political factions, one holding a ball at home base.

The National Game

Abraham Lincoln, 1861

Colored cartoon of two men with money bags waiting at gates to Cuba and Porto Rico, beside a worker and industrial goods.

Waiting for the Gates to Open

Frederick Victor Gillam, 1890