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Crazy French Monk...Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Etching of a long-haired man holding a tablet with a small figure, beside an etching of an armored soldier with a spear.

(Figurine Series) Long-Haired Man Holding Sign

Pencil drawing of a reclining female nude in angular cubist style, overlaid with a grid of lines.

Female Nude, Reclining

Pencil sketch of Nile riverbank cliffs and a sailboat, with a second view of rocky hillside below.

Nile (3rd and 4th view, Gebel el Fedah)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a river with trees, reeds, and two people in a rowboat, dated September 19, 1848.

Untitled - Daniel Kotz

Brown and grey wash drawing of a female nude crouched on hands and knees, head turned to the side, dark hair falling forward.

Female Nude on Hands and Knees

Pencil drawing of a standing figure in a feathered headdress and patterned robe, labeled Persian at lower left.

Prisoners of War (Persian)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel set design of a hall with lilac doors, a stool, cushions on the floor, and blue framing curtains.

Hall with Doors (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson

Ink and wash sketch of three standing female nudes grouped closely together, outlined in dark brush strokes.

Group of Three Female Nudes

Pencil sketch of a steep rocky hillside with scattered shrubs and a small figure, inscribed 'Jehosephat' at lower left.

Jehosephat

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Untitled - Howard Russell Butler

Howard Russell Butler

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a red-roofed farmhouse with green shutters, flowering shrubs and rolling hills behind it.

Farm near Albi

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of ancient temple columns and a doorway beneath a stone lintel, with the inscription Temple Carnac, Egypt.

Temple Carnac, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a woman in a draped shawl and long skirt, holding a small flower, on torn cream paper.

Untitled (Flower Girl)

Howard Russell Butler

Watercolor landscape of cattle grazing in a meadow with a blue sea and hills beyond, a flowering tree at right.

Landscape, Brittany

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a valley between two hillsides with rocks and shrubs in the foreground and an empty sky above.

Jacob's Well, Samaria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of two figures beside a boat with a raised sail on a shoreline, with wooden posts and open water behind.

Untitled (Two Figures near a Boat)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a wooden manufacturing machine with a toothed gear, lever and open hatch on a pale sheet.

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (Manufactures, study for panel)

Prisoners of War (Egyptian and African)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal and chalk drawing of dark rough sea waves with white foam under a cloudy grey sky, lower half blank.

Untitled (Seascape)

Howard Russell Butler

Watercolor landscape of a pale road winding past green trees toward distant blue hills under a soft sky.

On the Albi Road

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a crowded domed interior with a tiered central shrine surrounded by pilgrims in the Holy Sepulchre.

Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel and pencil sketch of a breaking wave with white foam, dark green water and a pale pink sky above the horizon.

Untitled (Breaking Wave)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a seated woman seen from behind in a period dress, with tall windows suggested in the background.

Ella at the Piano

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a wooden beam water device with a standing figure, a seated figure at left, and hills in the distance.

(Water Drawing Device)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a calm shoreline with marsh grasses, shrubs and trees on the right and water extending to a distant horizon.

Untitled (Shoreline)

Howard Russell Butler

Pastel drawing of a standing woman in a dark hooded robe against a blue and red background on brown paper.

Sara Algood As Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Chicago, 1915

William Penhallow Henderson

Pencil sketch of a hilly landscape with village buildings on a ridge, tents on the left, and olive trees and rocks in the for

Near Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of three arched openings in a weathered stone wall with worn steps and rubble in the foreground.

Untitled (Three Arches)

Howard Russell Butler

Pen and ink caricature of two laughing men in bowler hats seated at a dinner table with wine glasses and a carafe.

Untitled - Ralph Barton