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Brown wash drawing of a formal garden with terraced steps, conical trees, and figures by a pool.

Saint Cloud--4 Juin 1906

François Flameng, 1900

Pastel drawing of Medusa with snake-hair, wide eyes, open mouth and clawed hand reaching forward against dark blue tones.

Medusa (Laura Dreyfus Barney)

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Pencil sketch of a fortified castle and town on a shoreline with hills behind, labeled European Castle, Dardanelles.

European Castle, Dardanelles

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a red oil tanker with masts, rigging and a cargo boom beside a green shoreline.

Oil Tanker II

Arthur Dove, 1930

Pencil drawing of a nude female figure in a twisting pose on gridded tan paper, with arms outstretched.

(Untitled-nude female figure)

Louise Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a flat plain with hills, a stone building on the right, and trees on the left.

Plain of Jericho, Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel drawing of a woman with flowing hair set against a swirling woodland of green and blue trees.

Vision through Woods

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a tall poplar beside a thatched cottage and dirt path, with a fence post in the foreground.

Landscape

Solon H. Borglum, 1900

Native of Tibet

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pastel portrait of a man with a mustache, dark hair and white collar, set against a dark gray swirling background.

Henry M. Stanley

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Charcoal sketch of mounted officers, one raising a sabre, leading infantry through smoke and burning buildings on a battlefie

Washington and Lee at Monmouth

Pencil sketch of layered mountains and islands along a coast, with handwritten labels reading Naxos.

Naxos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Ink and watercolor drawing of a standing woman in a white swimsuit with short curled hair and red lips.

Web - artiste

Walt Kuhn, 1930

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman with dark hair and green jacket against a yellow background.

Light-Hearted

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil drawing of rocky sea cliffs, a church on a headland, distant hills and a sailboat on calm water.

Calabria

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Hazy watercolor of lavender mountains and blue misty hills under a pale sky, signed by Arthur B. Davies.

Blue Mist

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1920

Pastel portrait of a woman with auburn hair in a red top before a sunlit window grid.

Against the Window

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a bonnet and lace collar, head tilted back against a chair, on tan paper.

Consumptive Young Lady of New Orleans

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman in a draped dress, head turned, arms resting on a chair, on cream paper.

Seated Woman

Robert Henri, 1920

Pastel portrait study of a dark-haired man with a mustache, head only, against a brown background.

Ali Kuli Khan

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil drawing of a stone fortress with a round tower and battlements rising above a harbor edge with mooring posts.

Civitavecchia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of the village of San Piero a Grado with a tall bell tower, tiled roofs and trees under a pale sky.

San Piero a Grado, near Pisa

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman in a wide black hat with a feather, wearing a green jacket and pearl necklace.

Hat and Shadow

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Drawing of a man in a red fez and ottoman-style costume with a red sash, holding a cane beside a column.

Venetian Man

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pencil sketch on cream paper showing several studies of horses, including legs, hooves and a bowed head.

Horses

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pastel portrait of a mustached man in a gold turban, yellow robe and pink scarf against a green background.

Gold Turban

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a flat valley with palm trees and cliffs in the distance, labelled Thebes.

Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of San Xavier Mission with twin bell towers, a domed roof, cacti and small figures in the foreground.

Untitled (transfer drawing for San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona)

George Elbert Burr, 1920

Charcoal and yellow chalk drawing of a crouching boy reaching toward a snake on blue-grey paper.

Crouching Boy with Snake

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch on pale blue paper of two Turkish women, one in a white muslin summer dress and one veiled in a riding cloak.

Turkish Woman (summer dress/riding attire)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810