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Folk painting of fishermen in rowboats, sailing ships, whales and birds over a dark, churning blue sea.

The Marblehead Fishermen 2015.56.3 1

John Orne Johnson Frost

Painting of men dancing in a ring around carved posts, with embracing figures at the center and feathered headdresses.

Their Dances Which They Use at Their High Feasts

Spencer Nichols

Painting of peasants with cattle, goats and sheep beside a rocky cliff and stone house under a cloudy sky.

Peasants and Cattle

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

Painting of a half-nude bearded man on straw, gesturing as three figures including a woman in red speak with him.

Job and His Comforters

Painted view of a palisaded village with arched dwellings around a central fire, with figures gathered in the open plaza.

The Town of Pomeiock

Spencer Nichols

Painting of a Native American camp with many tipis, mounted riders and horses crossing the foreground, and a flat-topped mesa

Blackfoot Camp Scene

Edwin Willard Deming

Watercolor of Adalia's fortified walls, towers and harbor with sailboats on calm blue water.

Adalia, Asia Minor

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Two seated figures reach toward a bowl of food on a woven mat, one wearing a feathered headdress, against a pale background.

Theire Sitting at Meate

Spencer Nichols

Watercolor of workers shoveling snow near industrial buildings, rail cars, and a multi-arched bridge over a river in winter.

C.W.A. Worker at Key Bridge by Edgar Nye

Watercolor of a rocky hillside with blue and green trees and yellow shrubs under a pale sky.

Point Lobos Ernest Haskell

Painting of sunlit jagged mountain peaks above clouds and dark pine trees under a teal sky.

Switzerland--Near Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Painting of a colonial leader in a tricorn hat pointing across a river valley as settlers with children and a ship gather.

Arrival of Colonel John Donaldson (design for mural)

Francis Luis Mora

Dark stable scene with a glowing white horse, a red-clad figure bending toward chickens, and lantern light at left.

In the Stable

Albert Pinkham Ryder

Painting of cows drinking at a stone fountain with a shepherd and seated woman under trees at dusk.

Small Landscape

Thomas Gainsborough

Oil painting of a woman in white veiled dress riding a camel while a man in a turban gestures beside it, desert mountains beh

Man with Woman on Camel

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Dark painting of several boat silhouettes with masts against a moody sky streaked with pale and rose clouds.

Ships in Moonlight

Alice Pike Barney

Small painting of a Venetian canal with gondolas, a brick church with bell tower, and figures on a stone quay under a cloudy

Canal in Venice

Francesco Guardi

Painting of a river landscape with a red-clad child in a boat guided by a winged figure, tall trees, and distant mountains.

The Voyage of Life--Youth

Mural study of a western town street with a post office, saloon, groceries, blacksmith, two riders, and a woman.

Western Town (mural study, Helper, Utah Post Office)

Jenne Chavaz Magafan

Watercolor of thatched houses beside a winding path and fields under a muted, warm sky, with a bare tree at right.

Landscape with Houses

Winckworth Allan Gay

Charcoal drawing of a Hopi dwelling interior with women grinding corn, a child at a window, and a man smoking in a doorway.

Interior of a Hopi Dwelling

William Henry Jackson

Small painting of a tall brick lighthouse and gabled house on dunes, with sailboats on a sandy shore under a hazy sky.

Fire Island Lighthouse

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of a wooded hillside, a wooden bridge over water, thatched buildings and small figures along the bank.

Landscape with Bridge

Winckworth Allan Gay

Painting of a windmill and plowing farmer under a dramatic stormy sky with a large tree at left.

Windmill

Watercolor study of two green caterpillars camouflaged among pine needles on a branch.

Pine-Tuft Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Gerald H. Thayer

Painting of two children seated at a table playing checkers, one smiling broadly and the other studying the board.

Untitled (Two Children Playing Checkers)

James Henry Moser

Watercolor of a two-tiered stone aqueduct with rounded arches crossing a river, surrounded by green trees and shrubs.

Aqueduct

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a powdered wig and green coat, with engraved reverse reading ancestor of Theodore Rooseve

Peter De Vaux

Henry Benbridge

Loose watercolor of a stormy landscape with blue mountains, a dark tree in the foreground and green and ochre hills.

Untitled (Summer Landscape)

Ida Josephine Burgess

Pencil sketch of a rocky desert valley with steep cliffs and peaks, labeled as the Israelite encampment near Mt. Sinai.

Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg