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Oil portrait of a seated Zuni man in a blue shirt and patterned headband, with a stylized kachina figure behind him.

Zuni Man

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of beached rowboats and a sailboat on a sandy shore, with a wooden pier, red shed and calm sea under a pale sky.

Beach Scene

William Glackens, 1925

Watercolor of a hazy river with a green grassy bank, trees, a small boat and figures, and a distant smoke plume.

View on the Potomac

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Small child in red clothing stands on a yellow ground inside a dark arched opening, painted in loose thick brushstrokes.

Untitled - C. S. Price, 1940

C. S. Price, 1940

Oil painting of rocky California cliffs with surf breaking through a sunlit inlet, warm ochre rock and blue water.

California Cliffs by Paul Dougherty

Paul Dougherty, 1935

Two women in long skirts raise their arms beneath a tree covered in white blossoms on a green lawn.

Blossoms

William Henry Holmes, 1927

Half-circle oil sketch of arid mountains with snow peaks, red-ochre tones, and animals grazing by water.

Untitled (sketch for mural in Eastern Oregon)

C. S. Price, 1940

Painting of a pale rocky cliff face behind a gnarled oak tree and green meadow under a cloudy sky.

Oaks and Rocks--San Luis Obispo

Edward Bruce, 1930

Painting of a woman in a red headscarf cradling a sleeping infant, with a pale sky and sea horizon behind her.

The Happy Mother

Decorative mural study of ocean liners, a warship, and sailing boats before a stylized city skyline with airships overhead.

Shipping (mural study)

Griffith Baily Coale, 1920

Blue-toned painting of a kneeling woman reaching toward moonlit water, with a pale standing figure behind her on a shore.

Moses in the Bullrushes

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1921

Stylized painting of a white bird, palm fronds, and a distant volcano with smoke over a turquoise sea and blue mountains.

Neapolitan Song

Joseph Stella, 1929

Painting of seated figures holding red rattles in a ring around a campfire, with smoke rising into a pale sky.

Their Manner of Praying with Their Rattles about the Fire

Spencer Nichols, 1950

Loose painting of slender autumn trees with yellow leaves above a green meadow and red shrubs.

Royal Oak

William Henry Holmes, 1932

Watercolor of a half-timbered medieval house with a steep gable and pedestrians walking a cobbled street.

Old House in Rouen

Cass Gilbert, 1932

Full-length painting of a standing woman with facial and body tattoos, wearing a fringed skirt and bead necklace.

One of the Wyves of Wyngyne

Spencer Nichols, 1950

Loosely painted portrait of an older bearded man with glasses against a red-brown background, wearing a light jacket.

Self-Portrait

William de Leftwich Dodge, 1925

Painting of a woman in a grey dress holding a glass vase with a pink carnation by a sunlit window with flowers.

June

John White Alexander, 1911

Painting of a seated elderly man in a dark coat in a flowery field, with a white house, billowing clouds and a child at right

Old Black Joe

Horace Pippin, 1940

Painting of a rocky mountain valley with pine trees, a winding road, and billowing clouds above a granite peak.

Road in the Cuyamacas

Charles Reiffel, 1933

Painting of a farmer carrying a pitchfork across an autumn field past haystacks, a birch tree, and colorful trees.

Return from the Farm

Elliott Daingerfield, 1915

Painting of a rocky California coast with sunlit cliffs, a tide pool, and surf breaking around offshore rocks.

Evening Tide, California

William Ritschel, 1940

Watercolor of a field of white and pink blossoms under a pale blue sky, with thin tree trunks and green shrubs.

Field of Blossoms

William Henry Holmes, 1927

Muted night landscape with a large spreading oak, a pale moon, and two cloaked figures walking on the plain.

Abraham's Oak

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1905

Mural study showing helmeted soldiers with a machine gun, a seated woman, and a crowd with raised arms in muted olive and red

War (mural study, War Department building, Washington, D.C.)

Kindred McLeary, 1940

Watercolor of a country road beside a red brick thatched cottage with green shutters and tall trees, signed Cass Gilbert 1931

A Road in Dorset

Cass Gilbert, 1931

Watercolor of a green hill at sunset with small figures of children and adults and a pastel cloudy sky.

On the Sunset Hill, 1926

William Henry Holmes, 1926

Painting of adobe houses among poplar trees, with snowy purple mountains behind and a dirt road in the foreground.

Valley Spring

Victor Higgins, 1940

Panoramic oil landscape of a valley with layered hills, rocky outcrop, storm clouds and a small village beneath trees.

Valley of Cuernavaca

Thomas Moran, 1903

Watercolor of a rocky mountain gorge with a stream, green hillsides, and two small figures on a boulder.

Mountain Gorge, Colorado

William Henry Holmes, 1923