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Oil painting of a horseback rider, dog and two women by a river with sailboats and a farmhouse under a hazy sky.

Dutch Landscape with Figures

Jacob van Strij, 1810

Painting of a purple-hued mountain range above a still alpine lake, with conifers and boulders in the foreground.

Fifth Lake

Edgar Payne, 1920

Painting of a dusk river scene with dark farm buildings, tall trees, and a glowing sunset reflected in still water.

Small Landscape

John Francis Murphy, 1880

Painting of four figures walking under a golden sun, carrying fruit, flowers and a scythe, with a decorative gold border.

The Four Seasons

William Clarke Rice, 1920

Painting of two sailboats and rowboats on a rippling sea under a rosy sunset sky, with a distant lighthouse.

Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine

William Frederick De Haas, 1870

Loosely painted street scene in ochre tones with bare trees, pedestrians, and a building along the right edge.

Place de la Madeleine no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Oil painting of a rolling green landscape with a winding path through trees, fields and hills under a cloudy sky.

Cornish Landscape

Charles A. Platt, 1910

Painting of a pink and lavender sunset sky over a dark silhouetted treeline and landscape.

Sunrise or Sunset, study for book, Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Painting of a sick boy in bed holding a toy while a woman knits beside him in a green-walled room.

The Sick Child

J. Bond Francisco, 1890

Painting of waves breaking on a dark rock under a stormy green night sky with a bright moonlit cloud break.

Great Silas at Night

Robert C. Minor, 1890

Panoramic painting of a valley with rocky outcrops, distant hills, dark trees in the foreground, and a small village under cl

Valley of Cuernavaca

Thomas Moran, 1900

Painting of a colorful garden with a potted conical plant, a curved pond, orange and green trees, and a small house.

Landscape with Pond--Newman's Yard

Carl Newman, 1910

Painting of three men in a small sailboat battling rough waves under a dark stormy sky with seagulls overhead.

Riding out a Gale

Edward Moran, 1880

Loose brushwork painting of green shrubs and grey boulders on a rocky shore, with white surf and deep blue sea beyond.

Vine Clad Shore--Monhegan Island

George Bellows, 1910

Painting of a sunlit garden path under a blue trellis arbor, with a white house and green shrubs beyond.

Grape Arbor

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of pale sand dunes with green beach grass and shrubs under a cloudy sky, extending to a distant horizon.

Nantucket Sand Dune

C. Morgan McIlhenney, 1890

Washington and Lafayette

n.d S. Wehry, 1820

Dusky purple landscape with spiky dark forms under a pale sky crossed by a red streak of light.

The Sky Simulated by White Flamingoes study for book, Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Painting of a woman in a white dress playing a grand piano in a paneled room with a potted flowering plant.

At the Piano

Theodore Robinson, 1880

Loose oil landscape with two dark trees, reddish rolling hills and a pale overcast sky by Henry Ossawa Tanner.

Untitled - Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Loose painting of a helmeted woman with spear standing in a chariot pulled by dark horses under a pale, cloudy sky.

Minerva in a Chariot

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Painting of a broad valley with a dirt road, cart, figure with cattle, church tower and dramatic cloudy sky.

Dedham Vale--Summer Morning

John Constable, 1800

Sunset landscape with a thatched house, palm trees, travelers on a dirt road, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Javanese Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a red-roofed building framed by green trees and a foreground of red flowers under a hazy sky.

(Landscape with Red Roof Building)

Carl Newman, 1910

Abstract painting of bold blue, green, yellow and red shapes with curving outlines and a grid pattern.

Fugue

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Loose oil painting of a tall church tower and spire over a muted city square under a grey, overcast sky.

Place St. Germain des Pres

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a seated woman with short dark hair in a brown gold-trimmed jacket against a red patterned background.

Bagdad

Allen Tucker, 1920

Loose oil sketch of a park promenade with a man beside white sailboats, a child, and a woman with a parasol under trees.

The Man Who Rented Boats

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Painting of a coastal landscape with a dark-leaved tree, orange and red rocks, a blue sea and pink hills.

Landscape

Carl Newman, 1910

Painting of a red-lit sandstone butte beneath orange sunset clouds, with a river, green trees, and rocky desert ground.

Sunset Cloud, Green River, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1910