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Painting of breaking ocean waves on a sandy beach under cloudy skies, with a small island and sailboats on the horizon.

Beach of Bass Rocks, Gloucester, Massachusetts

F. K. M. Rehn, 1880

Abstract painting with swirling white and green brushstrokes over brown tones, on a dark panel.

Untitled - Alfred H. Maurer, 1920

Alfred H. Maurer, 1920

Christ on a rocky height raises his hand toward angels in light while a winged devil lurks in shadow below.

Christ Tempted by the Devil

John Ritto Penniman, 1810

Painting of an open autumn prairie with a herd of elk grazing and three figures with rifles in the lower right foreground.

Elk Grazing on an Autumn Prairie

George Catlin, 1840

Oil painting of an overgrown stone temple with stairway, banyan tree, palms, and figures on grass under a cloudy sky.

Javanese Temple in Ruins

Javanese Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a blue-branched tree beside a white house with a red roof and a colorful garden.

Blue Trees

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of a striped lighthouse and a white mail boat battling choppy waves under a stormy, rust-colored sky.

Mail to Cape Lookout (mural study, Beaufort, North Carolina Post Office)

Simka Simkhovitch, 1930

Painting of a haloed woman holding an infant by a stone wall, with a man riding a donkey and a town on a hill behind.

The Flight into Egypt

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1910

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

Painting of a woman in a brown cloak beside sunlit stone steps and whitewashed buildings casting long blue shadows.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a family picnic on a white cloth in a shaded forest clearing among tall trees, with a man in a straw hat.

Untitled--Picnic Scene

J. M. Tracy, 1870

Soft painted landscape of a pale moon rising over a tree line, with a green meadow and small pond in the foreground.

Midsummer Moonrise

Dwight W. Tryon, 1890

Painting of a man leading a dark calf down a sunlit street lined with whitewashed buildings and arched doorways.

Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Seated man in feathered headdress paints horseback rider and deer on a hide, beside a decorated pot and paint palette.

Indian Artist

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of children dancing around a maypole and playing in a city square with market stalls and tenement buildings.

The Field of Joy

Jerome Myers, 1920

Naive painting of fishing schooners, rowboats with fishermen, whales and birds on a dark, turbulent sea under a blue sky.

The Marblehead Fishermen

John Orne Johnson Frost, 1920

Painting of women in traditional bonnets seated in a church, facing a preacher in a raised pulpit beside a window.

The Sermon

Gari Melchers, 1880

Painting of a headless rider on a black horse chasing a fleeing rider on a white horse through a moonlit autumn forest.

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane

John Quidor, 1850

Painting of tall pale poplar trees, a small figure in blue on a path, and a pale sandy plain under a turquoise sky.

Scene of Algiers

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Oil painting of a seated man in green robes with women and a winged cupid beside a red curtain under a cloudy sky.

Helen Brought to Paris

Benjamin West, 1770

Misty painting of a columned classical building beyond a river, with bare trees and a stone embankment in muted browns.

Chambre des Deputes in a Mist

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painted landscape with bare trees, red and orange foliage, green fields, winding paths, and distant blue hills.

Landscape, Bridge, Huntingdon Valley

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Night painting of a hilltop town with a bright moon glowing over swirling clouds and pale water below.

Magic City

John Noble, 1920

Loose painting of a warm-toned city square with a tall obelisk, classical buildings, lamp posts and small pedestrians.

La Concorde

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a robed risen Christ reaching toward a kneeling woman in green drapery beneath a dark tree and glowing sky.

Christ Appearing to Mary

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1880

Painting of a white mansion with a cupola on a wooded bluff overlooking water, with a ship sailing under a pink evening sky.

Mount Vernon

Frances Mary "Jennie" Bellows Millard, 1850

Loose impressionist harbor scene with blue water, moored boats with masts, and three figures on a sandy shore.

Cote aux Environs de Cherbourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a reclining man resting his head on a seated woman's lap on a leopard-skin couch, with an attendant and a dog.

(Interior Scene with Sultan and Concubine)

Thomas Buchanan Read, 1820

Oil landscape of a sunlit pasture with grazing cattle and sheep, autumn trees, a dirt path, and distant hills under a glowing

Landscape

Charles H. Moore, 1850

Misty pale landscape with a rushing stream, bare trees, and a distant house beneath a hazy sky.

End of Winter

John Henry Twachtman, 1900