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Pencil sketch of a river valley with steep hills, a steamboat with smoke, a sailboat, and trees along the banks.

Up Rhine from Hirzenach

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pastel portrait of a woman in a black hat and veil, wearing a white high-collared blouse, on tan paper.

Self Portrait with Hat and Veil

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pastel drawing on tan paper of a young girl with bowed head, long hair and raised hands, with white highlights.

Young Girl

Paul Chabas, 1930

Pencil sketch of a narrow sunlit street with stone buildings, balconies, and figures walking, titled Calle del Campanero.

Calle del Campanero

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat holding a long stick beside a basket, with a hat study above.

Untitled (Seated Man with Stick)

Howard Russell Butler

Pastel head study of a man with a mustache and pince-nez glasses on a dark gray background.

Allan Chesterton

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with auburn bob hair in a green cloche hat against a dark background.

The Green Hat

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch of a rearing horse with a rider slumped over its neck on cream paper.

Dream of a Broncho #5

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil sketch of an old multi-arched stone bridge over a river with rowboats, a sailboat, and a factory with a chimney.

Old Bridge over the Dee, Chester

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of jagged Tyrolean mountains above a forested slope, with farm buildings and conifers in a meadow below.

Bad Moos, Sexten Thal, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Untitled (Head of Bearded Man)

Howard Russell Butler

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a feathered hat and fur stole holding a glass beside a small table.

La Parisienne en 1906

Maurice Éliot, 1910

Pastel portrait of a dark-haired woman in black holding a sleeping infant, with a blurred figure and gold vase behind her.

Italian Woman with Child

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of a horse rearing with a rider or figure clinging to its neck, drawn in loose gestural lines on cream paper.

Dream of a Broncho #4

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pastel and charcoal portrait of a young man with dark hair, head turned, on grey paper, by Alice Pike Barney, 1910.

Hippolyte Thom

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of a stone cromlech with a capstone, a grazing sheep, and a distant village on a flat horizon.

Cromlech near Criccieth, North Wales/Coast near Pensarn, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Aileen at Asolo

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of teepees on a plain with horses and figures near a rocky ridge, on aged torn paper.

Teepees

Solon H. Borglum, 1890

Open sketchbook with a pencil drawing of a towered castle before distant mountains, inscribed Castle at Aigle.

(Sketchbook) Castle at Aigle

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of Palermo harbor with a steep mountain, waterfront buildings, masts, and a steamboat with smoke.

Harbor of Palermo

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Sanguine crayon portrait of a man in a flying helmet and goggles, with the name Quentin Roosevelt printed across the top.

Quentin Roosevelt

John Elliott, 1920

Red chalk drawing of a seated nude woman from behind, raising her arms to tie up her long hair.

Female Figure Dressing Hair

Paul-Albert Baudouin, 1930

Pencil portrait of an older man with a full mustache, wearing a jacket and tie, on a tan paper background.

Ferdinand De Lesseps

Léon Bonnat, 1910

Pastel portrait of a man in a felt hat holding a pipe, drawn with soft colored strokes on tan paper.

Alec Francis

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Evalina Cortland Palmer

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pastel sketch of a seated woman in yellow and orange clothing, arms around her knees, on brown paper.

Seated Woman

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of an old house with a tall pointed spire among trees, drawn on an open sketchbook page.

(Sketchbook) Old House, Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a young woman in a black hat, yellow scarf and orange wrap against a grey background.

Young Woman in Black Hat

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch of Heidelberg at sunset with a stone arched bridge, church towers, and a river in the foreground.

Sunset, Heidelberg

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman with her head bent and hair in swirling strokes, draped figure below.

Aileen at Venice

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan