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Painting of white surf crashing against dark rocks under a heavy, overcast sky along a rugged coastline.

Maine Coast

Paul Dougherty, 1909

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse arranging her dark hair against a dark green leafy background.

Girl Arranging Her Hair

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1910

Lady in White (No. 2)

Thomas Dewing, 1910

Painting of a woman in a mauve dress leaning toward a young girl in white holding an open book, seated in a dim interior.

An Interlude

William Sergeant Kendall, 1907

Painting of white-sailed boats moored at a wharf with dock posts, rigging, and waterfront buildings under a blue sky.

Wharf Scene, Gloucester

Bertha E. Perrie, 1920

Painting of a young woman in a white blouse arranging her long dark hair against dark green foliage.

Girl Arranging Her Hair

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1918

Painting of a woman in white seated on sunlit rocks above sparkling blue sea with surf and a distant sailboat.

The South Ledges, Appledore

Childe Hassam, 1913

Painting of the Porte Saint-Denis arch in Paris with pedestrians, bare trees and a street lamp in warm earth tones.

Porte St. Denis

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of mourners lowering Christ's body from a cross, with two angels holding palm fronds above, on a gold ground.

Descent from the Cross

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1915

Two horseback riders under a tree at a gate while a woman in a dark shawl holds it open, in sunlight.

Callers

Walter Ufer, 1926

Two-panel folding screen with carved black wood frame and bold geometric abstract paintings in blue, red, green and white.

Abstract Screen

Jay Van Everen, 1920

Painting of a winged angel offering a chalice to a kneeling haloed figure in white, beneath a red cross and night sky.

Gethsemane

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1915

Painting of a potted cineraria with white and violet daisy-like flowers on a lace-covered table before blue curtains.

Josephine L. Reichmann - Cineraria

Josephine L. Reichmann, 1933

Painting of old Paris buildings, a stone arch and a carriage on a busy street in warm ochre tones.

Vieilles Maisons (Paris)

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a haloed figure breaking bread at a table with two companions, a dove above, and a woman holding fruit.

Supper at Emmaus

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1915

Night scene of brick factory buildings with lit windows, smokestacks and a green-yellow sky in a stylized painting.

Industry at Night

Horatio C. Forjohn, 1940

Night landscape with a glowing haloed moon over rolling hills, and small dark figures travelling along a path at lower left.

Flight into Egypt

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Painting of women in flowing gowns dancing in a spring meadow beside a blossoming tree, with a flute player behind them.

Spring Dance

Arthur Frank Mathews, 1917

Painting of pedestrians and bare trees along an iron fence in front of a stone building, in muted brown tones.

L' Odeon du Luxembourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a seated woman in a ruffled dress holding a red necklace by a sunlit window with green garden views.

The Necklace

Richard Edward Miller, 1920

Woman with chin in hands beside an older bearded man, with fruit bowl and blue drapery behind them.

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis with Still Life

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Loose painting of pedestrians walking past bare trees and a stone building with an iron fence in winter light.

L' Odeon du Luxembourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1911

Impressionist painting of a spring hillside with budding trees, a rocky slope, a farmer in a field, and the sea beyond.

The Budding Oak

Willard Metcalf, 1910

Painting of rolling green hills with red earth foreground, small figures on a path, and a heavy grey sky.

Mountain Forms #2

Victor Higgins, 1920

Loose brushwork painting of a city street with bare trees, a horse-drawn carriage, pedestrians, and golden-lit buildings.

St. Germain des Pres no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Two riders on brown horses at a white gate, where a woman in a dark shawl holds it open beneath a tree.

Callers

Walter Ufer, 1920

Lady in White (No. 2)

Thomas Dewing, 1910

Muted painting of a columned classical building behind bare trees, a street lamp, and small walking figures at dusk.

Chambre des Deputes no. 1

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Blonde Studio Model

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Loose painting of three figures, two women and a child in yellow, walking a shaded woodland path beneath dense green foliage.

The Woodland Way

William Baxter Closson, 1920