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Dim interior with a seated man at a table, a standing woman in rust dress, and a small figure in a doorway at right.

And He Disappeared out of Their Sight

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890

Painted study of workers with stone blocks, fruit picking, a woman with a cotton basket, mules, and factory buildings behind.

Abundance of Today (mural study, Clarksville, Tennessee Post Office)

F. Luis Mora, 1930

Painting of two seated women making arrows and a standing child beside them in an adobe interior with feathers and a basket.

Arrow Makers

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of a river valley with storm clouds, a covered bridge, rolling hills, and two walkers with a dog on a rocky bank.

View of Cohoes

J.W. Hill, 1820

Crowded baroque banquet under classical arches, with reclining women, servants, armed men on a staircase, and smoke rising.

The Banquet of Cleopatra

Sebastiano Mazzoni, 1660

Two women seated on a rug in an adobe room, painting geometric designs on pottery vessels.

Hopi Pottery Painters

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of adobe pueblo houses with small windows and a dark doorway on dusty ground under a pale sky.

Walpi Pueblo

Eanger Irving Couse, 1900

Painting of a rocky coastline with layered ledges, surf breaking on the rocks, and blue sea under a pale sky.

Rockbound Coast, Cape Ann

Cullen Yates, 1900

Painting of a stone village church and cemetery with crosses under a heavy cloudy sky, in muted ochre tones.

Village Church and Cemetery, Brittany

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a choppy harbor with a sailboat, a small island, and a distant city skyline under a grey sky.

Untitled (Harbor Scene)

James Hamilton, 1800

Painting of a dense tropical jungle with tall trees, a dirt path, small figures with a dog, and monkeys in branches.

Javanese Jungle

Javanese Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a colorful garden with a bending figure, flower beds, cypress trees and bold orange and blue foliage.

Garden

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Robed monks in a pale arched cloister with cypress trees beyond, and a fresco of haloed angels on the wall.

Inspiration Chretienne

Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, 1880

Painting of a Venetian canal with gondolas, a tall brick bell tower, a stone arched bridge and palaces under a blue sky.

Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice

Canaletto, 1700

Painting of bare trees on a curving path above rolling hills in bold yellow, orange, green and blue patches.

Valley Falls I

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

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, 1700

Loose painting of a dark house on a ridge with pale trees, blue mountains, turquoise sky and rust-colored shrubs.

House on the Ridge

Chauncey F. Ryder, 1920

Painted study of a neoclassical chamber with red drapery, gray columns, a vaulted ceiling, and a raised rostrum at left.

Study for The House of Representatives

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1820

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

Thomas Cole, 1850

Painting of a decorated tipi by a lake at dusk, with two figures, spears and a shield, under a glowing amber sky.

Night Scene of Indian Tipi

Benjamin Raborg, 1890

Painting of a dark mesa under a blue-gray sky with rain falling from clouds onto its top, sandy desert foreground.

Cloudburst at Black Mesa, New Mexico

Allen Tucker, 1920

Painting of pink zinnias in a yellow and pink vase on a table before a pale window, with bold black outlines.

Zinnias

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Oil painting of a dirt village lane lined with a stone house, trees and flowering walls under a cloudy sky.

Maison de Millet

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Oil painting of the sailing ship Great Western under full sail on rough sea at dusk, with an American flag.

Great Western

William Marsh, 1850

Expressive painting of crimson trees with bent black branches over a green meadow, with a tower and blue-yellow sky behind.

Winds

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Men recoil in a dark cave as a woman gestures toward a glowing white-robed ghost, with lightning in the sky beyond.

Saul and the Witch of Endor

William Sidney Mount, 1820

Painting of sunlit red cliffs above a river under a stormy sky, with mounted riders on the bank in the foreground.

Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory

Thomas Moran, 1880

Painting of a woman drawing water from a stone well in a sunlit courtyard, with brick walls and green doors behind.

Scene Italienne pres de la Fontaine

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a hazy valley seen between tall tree trunks, with a distant mountain and a split-rail fence in the foreground.

Temple Mountain

Chauncey F. Ryder, 1940

Painting of a countryside with dramatic storm clouds over fields, a small white cottage, and a path in the foreground.

Small Landscape

John Constable, 1800