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Pencil sketch of a lake with hatched mountains rising to snowy peaks on the right, in an open sketchbook.

(Sketchbook) (Lake of Geneva from Vevey)

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman with short white hair in a dark dress against a green background.

Mrs. Leslie Carter

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Charcoal and chalk drawing of two women embracing, one in a red headscarf, with a handwritten French dedication below.

Greeting

Antoine Calbet, 1940

Pastel portrait of a woman with long red hair, a white flower in her hair, and a blue dress against a green background.

Woman with Red Hair

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pen and ink sheet with five studies of raised muscular arms and hands showing anatomy and shading.

Arm Studies, #2

Solon H. Borglum, 1890

Old Peasant

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a hilltop town with a church tower, rooftops, and a wooded hill.

(Sketchbook) Church and Tower, Laufenberg

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with a rust and green head wrap and soft, loosely drawn pale garment.

Fresque

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of wooden farm buildings in an alpine valley with steep mountain peaks and conifer forest behind.

View from Sextan, Tyrol

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil and wash drawing of bare trees and branches rising from snow-covered ground in a misty winter woodland.

Untitled (Trees in Snow)

George Elbert Burr, 1880

Red-chalk portrait of a young man in a military cap and high-collared uniform, with Latin inscription above.

Kiffin Rockwell

John Elliott, 1920

Zingare

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pastel portrait of a smiling young blonde woman with a bob haircut against a tan and blue hatched background.

Blonde Girl

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil drawing of Castle Oberlahnstein on the Rhine, showing a tall stone tower, gabled buildings and trees in the foreground

Castle Oberlahnstein, Rhine

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Vamp of 1900 (Lottie Stein)

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Untitled (Two Drawings of Men)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil drawing of a Gothic cathedral with tall spires and a rose window, surrounded by scattered rubble in the foreground.

Cathedral

Solon H. Borglum, 1910

Pencil sketch of the Rhine at Oberwesel showing a church, riverside town, hilltop castle ruins and a rowboat on the shore.

Rhine at Oberwesel

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pen line drawing of a woman's face and shoulders, facing forward with bobbed hair, signed Gorky in the upper left.

Head

Arshile Gorky, 1940

Graphite and red chalk sketch of a woman in a red headscarf holding a young child on her shoulder, on gray paper.

Mother and Child

Fernand Maillaud, 1940

Poster of a standing bearded man in white sweater and pink trousers beside a pole, with text advertising Robert Blum's painti

Robert Blum's/Great Decorative/Painting/In/January/Scribner's

William Sergeant Kendall, 1930

Major General David Sloan Stanley

James Edward Kelly, 1890

Pastel head study of a young man with dark hair, drawn in loose colored strokes on a tan paper ground.

Head Study

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Charcoal and colored crayon drawing of a black toucan with a large upturned beak and yellow throat, perched on a branch.

Aerial Toucan

Henry G. Keller, 1930

Pencil sketchbook spread of pollarded willows and poplars before a hazy mountain range, left page blank.

(Sketchbook) Near Aigle

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Colorful drawing of a crowd fleeing a burning opera house, with flames and smoke at upper left and tiered balconies.

Fire in an Opera House

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1890

Pencil sketch of figures carrying a bundle on a shore, with a sailing ship with masts at right and hills behind.

Crushed

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Titian Hair

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel drawing of a woman with dark hair turned slightly to one side, against a soft blue background.

Untitled - Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pastel portrait of a young woman with dark bobbed hair and a white fichu, on tan paper, signed Alice Pike Barney.

Jaqueline with Fichu

Alice Pike Barney, 1900