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Pastel portrait of a smiling woman with short dark hair and colorful earrings, holding pink drapery against her chest.

Model Holding Drapery

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pastel stage design of a night garden with flowers, a seated figure on a mushroom pedestal, and blue framing curtains.

Garden of Flowers (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson, 1910

Pencil sketch of a tall lone cypress tree among rocky cliffs and a stone building on Mount Sinai.

Oak Tree on Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of waves breaking over rocky coastline with a small sailboat on the horizon.

Bordighera, Italy

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of caricatured musicians playing double bass, horn, drum and lute outdoors, with a building in the background.

The Muses

David Claypoole Johnston, 1830

Watercolor and pencil sketch of ships at sea, a wooded coast, a boat hull study, and a plant drawing with handwritten notes.

Coastal Scene

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a riverside town with a church with twin towers above rows of houses.

(Sketchbook) Laufenberg

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait sketch of a bespectacled, mustached man with tousled hair on brown paper, signed and dated 1900.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a bathing place with a flagpole, watchtower, small wooden huts, pilings and trees under a pale sky.

Bathing Place, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Graphite study of a draped seated figure with a hooded fabric arch over the head, over a faint grid.

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

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark curly hair looking down, holding a red and yellow fan against a gray background.

Study with Fan

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch of a hatched mountain above a horizon with layered island silhouettes labeled Little Milo, Milo, and Kimolo.

Cimolus/Melos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Sepia portrait drawing of a young man in U.S. military uniform and garrison cap, with Latin inscription above.

Hamilton Coolidge

John Elliott, 1920

Blue-toned pastel drawing of a marsh at dusk with a winding stream, reeds, and dark wooded hills under a pale sky.

Marshlands at Sundown

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a reclining lion beside a scrolled architectural bracket and stylized foliage, with handwritten inscription.

Theatre at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

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

Pastel portrait of a young woman with a tilted head against sweeping green and brown strokes.

Freda

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Sheep

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Red chalk portrait of a young man in a naval cap and high-collared uniform, looking directly at the viewer.

Richard McCall Elliot, Jr.

John Elliott, 1920

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a black veil and dark dress holding a parasol, against a rose background.

Julienne

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of Gallipoli waterfront with a fortified hill, minarets, low buildings and moored sailing boats.

Gallipoli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a wooded valley with trees, a stream, and a mountain rising under cloudy skies in North Wales.

Valley of the Llugwy (Moel Siabod), North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with short dark hair and blue eyes wearing a pale blue dress against a soft background.

Mrs. Pansy Cotton

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Armenian Girl of Constantinople

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Horse Study

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Brown wash drawing of a smiling woman with short wavy hair, earrings and a lace collar, with French inscription at right.

Woman's Head

Antoine Injalbert, 1910

Pencil sketch of the volcano Stromboli emitting a smoke plume above the sea, with a small rock at the left edge.

Stromboli

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

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

Pencil and ink sketch of a bare tree with spreading branches above haystacks in an open field.

Motive for Etching

George Elbert Burr, 1910

Harpress Tomb, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg