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Painting of a headless rider chasing a fleeing horseman on a white horse through a moonlit forest path.

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane

John Quidor, 1858

Two women on a stone terrace in an Italian landscape, one sketching, with a black dog and distant hilltop town.

Two Women in an Italian Landscape

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1850

Painting of a steep dark rocky cliff with waves crashing below and two small figures on the clifftop under a grey sky.

High Cliff, Coast of Maine

Winslow Homer, 1894

Oil portrait of four men with red feathered headdresses, red face paint, and beaded jewelry against a dark background.

Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees

Charles Bird King, 1821

Watercolor landscape of rolling hills and fields with an inset map of Valley Forge and Valley Creek.

Valley Forge

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1890

Painting of granite cliffs and pine trees in Yosemite Valley, with a calm river reflecting the dark foliage.

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1872

Painting of a rocky hillside with a mine tunnel above a calm lake, a small white building and rowboat at the shore.

The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York

Homer Dodge Martin, 1862

Painting of a tall ship with white sails spread at a wooden pier, reflected in calm green harbor water.

Drying Sails

Griffith Baily Coale, 1890

Oil portrait of a man with a red feathered headdress, fur robe, claw necklace and silver earrings against a pale sky.

Wah-ro-née-sah, The Surrounder, Chief of the Otoe Tribe

George Catlin, 1832

Woman with fishing nets and basket on her back holds a child's hand on a windy sand dune under a cloudy sky.

Fisher Girl of Picardy

Elizabeth Nourse, 1889

Triangular painting of green and brown mountains with an arched tunnel, railway tracks and a winding path under a pale sky.

Triangular Mountainscape with Tunnel

n.d Dana Smith, 1900

Painting of a seated man in a white shirt reading a book beside a wooden door in a dim interior.

The Lord Is My Shepherd

Eastman Johnson, 1863

Painting of ruined classical columns in foreground overlooking a bay with boats and a mountain under a golden sky.

Pompeii

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1871

Woman with Red Hair

Albert Herter, 1890

Night painting of a red and green aurora over dark hills, with a two-masted ship on icy water in the foreground.

Aurora Borealis

Frederic Edwin Church, 1865

Watercolor of two nude boys beside a white boat on a grassy riverbank under a pale sky.

Sand Burr

Thomas Anshutz, 1894

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in a red embroidered tunic and black cloak against a dark background.

Self-Portrait in Costume of Hamlet

Albert Herter, 1900

Painted valley with a calm river, rolling wooded hills, grazing sheep and cattle, and a warm cloudy sky.

Valley Pasture

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1857

Two women with a pitchfork and a sheep walk across a dusky hillside under a yellow sunset sky.

Bringing home the new born lamb

Elliott Daingerfield, 1890

Painting of a woman in an orange fur-trimmed cloak standing in a decorated interior with curtains, piano, and sofa.

Woman in Interior

n.d Dana Smith, 1900

Painting of a wide river curving past grassy bluffs, with small figures on the edge and a distant village under a streaked sk

Distant View of the Mandan Village

George Catlin, 1832

Full-length painting of a bearded man with a paddle beside a lake and mountains under a cloudy sky.

Australian Man

Antonio Zeno Shindler, 1893

Painting of a marsh meadow at sunset with glowing red clouds, haystacks, a tree at left, and a small figure in the distance.

Jersey Meadows at Sunset

Martin Johnson Heade, 1860

Seated nude woman with an open book and a small flower in a sunny grassy hillside, looking upward.

The Open Book

J. Alden Weir, 1891

Painting of Black women in headwraps and aprons in a dim interior as an elderly white woman in black stands at right.

A Visit from the Old Mistress

Winslow Homer, 1876

Painting of a waterfall plunging into a canyon with a river below, framed by rock cliffs and pine forest under a cloudy sky.

View of the Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Grafton Tyler Brown, 1890

Painting of a woman in a white gown flanked by two children before a dark tree and teal sky.

My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1897

Watercolor costume study of a bearded man in a red and blue turban, black embroidered jacket and red striped trousers.

Costume of Beder Khan Bey

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1814

Pale witches tumble through a dark night sky, lit by a diagonal shaft of lightning against swirling clouds.

Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches

William Holbrook Beard, 1890

Full-length portrait of a white-haired man in a black coat and red cloak beside a column, with a sunset landscape behind.

Andrew Jackson

Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl, 1836