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Oil portrait of a seated woman in a black puff-sleeved dress resting on a red patterned cushion, with a framed picture on the

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)

John Singer Sargent, 1893

Soft, hazy winter landscape with a brook winding through snowy fields and trees on a hilltop.

The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Painting of a Hereford bull grazing on a grassy plain with a bird on its back and cattle in the distance.

Ajax

John Steuart Curry, 1936

Watercolor of a fortified harbor at Corfu with stone walls, hillside buildings, and a moored sailing ship.

Castle at Corfu, Greece

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1814

Ta-do-udo-sa (Prairie Chicken)

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1880

Watercolor of the Pont du Gard aqueduct's tiered stone arches under a blue sky, with green hills and shrubs.

Pont du Gard, France

Cass Gilbert, 1926

Painting of a woman in green holding a nude toddler while a girl in yellow kisses the toddler's cheek.

The Caress

Mary Cassatt, 1902

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair and a white cravat wearing a dark coat against a tan background.

John Cockey, III

Philip Tilyard, 1820

Painting of a mounted hunter with a lance chasing a bison across open plains, other riders and herd in the distance.

Buffalo hunt on the Southwestern plains

John Mix Stanley, 1845

Watercolor of a cloister arcade with striped arches, carved capitals, and a sloping tiled roof beside a stone wall.

Cathedral Cloister at Le Puy

Cass Gilbert, 1929

Painting of the schooner yacht America under full white sails on choppy water, with an American flag and small red boat.

The Yacht America

Charles S. Raleigh, 1870

Half-length portrait of a man in a feathered beaded headband, red blanket and pink shirt, holding a decorated pipe.

No Heart (Nan-che-ning-ga)

Charles Bird King, 1837

Watercolor portrait of a young woman with dark bangs, face softly modeled against muted brown and violet washes.

Mary

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Painting of a dusty adobe town plaza with a whitewashed church, ox cart, carriages, and pedestrians under cloudy skies.

Old Mesilla Plaza

Léon Trousset, 1880

Painting of cream, pink and white roses and carnations among dark green leaves in a loosely brushed garden scene.

Garden in May

Maria Oakey Dewing, 1895

Oil portrait of a young man with dark swept-back hair, dark coat and white collar, against a dim brown background.

Portrait of the Artist, Age 23

William Edgar Marshall, 1860

Oil portrait of a young man with tousled brown hair in a dark coat and white shirt against a warm brown background.

Self-Portrait

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, 1840

Hazy river valley with misty mountains, a leaning pine on a rocky cliff, sailboats on the water, and two figures.

Along the Hudson

John Frederick Kensett, 1852

Painting of a pale horse and mounted riders drinking at a pool at night, with dark figures in shadow behind.

Fired On

Frederic Remington, 1907

Oval oil portrait of a man with tousled dark hair, dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Henry Ulke, 1870

Painting of rocky cliffs above churning sea surf beneath a sky of pale clouds, by Paul Dougherty, 1907.

Sun and Storm

Paul Dougherty, 1907

Painting of a mounted warrior on a white horse at a cliff edge, with two riders and distant mesas under a cloudy sky.

Black Knife, an Apache Warrior

John Mix Stanley, 1846

Portrait of a man in a blue coat and red gold-braided waistcoat leaning on a stone balustrade, holding a letter.

Lord Rothes

Lord Rothes, 1760

Still life of fruit, walnuts, wine bottles and glasses on a table, with a landscape visible through a window behind.

Luncheon Still Life

John F. Francis, 1860

Watercolor of a half-timbered courtyard with red tiled roofs, two stone statues, and flowering shrubs and vines.

The Smaller Courtyard, Hotel Guilleaume le Conquerant, Dives, France

Cass Gilbert, 1924

Damaged painting of a young woman in a red floral gown and green headdress before a hilly landscape.

Head of a Young Woman

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1400

Two women lounge on a patterned divan in an ornate room, with a brass tray of roses and almonds in the foreground.

Idle Hours

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1895

Painting of a farmhouse among poplar trees, with laundry on a fence, a pond, and workers in a wheat field.

Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature

Andrew W. Warren, 1859

Painting of a tattooed man in a red loincloth standing by a rocky shore, with ocean waves and palm trees behind him.

Melanesian Man

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Watercolor of a rainy Munich street with a Gothic clock tower, carriages, and pedestrians on wet cobblestones.

Street Scene in Munich

Ross Turner, 1880