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Watercolor of two tall stems with clusters of small white flowers and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Miner's Candle (Oreocarya virgata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Pencil sketch of a lake framed by distant hills, with trees, a stone wall, and small figures in the foreground.

Sea of Tiberias, From Tabor

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal drawing of a chalice amid swirling white and dark spirals, with a handwritten verse on a label below.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Despair

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a hillside town of flat-roofed houses between mountains, with palm trees and an inscription at lower left.

Syra

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of a Purple Monkey-Flower sprig with magenta blossoms, yellow throats, green leaves, and a visible root on cream p

Purple Monkey-Flower (Mimulus bigelovii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Charcoal sketch of a man in a dark hat embracing a woman, their faces close together, on cream paper.

Mother and Child

Watercolor of a white-flowered saxifrage plant with a leafy green rosette and slender flowering stems on cream paper.

Saxifrage (Saxifraga caespitosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil drawing of a wooden and steel toll bridge over rippling water, with pilings, small buildings and trees on the bank.

Toll Bridge, Indian Rocks, Florida

Walter Ronald Locke, 1930

Pencil sketch of a woman inhaling from a tube as a man in a top hat, a child, and a seated woman look on.

The Laughing Gas

William Glackens

Watercolor of pink five-petaled Sabbatia flowers with yellow centers, green stems, leaves and buds on a pale background.

Saltmarsh Rosegentian (Sabbatia stellaris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a cap by a wooden doorway, with a cooking pot and a head study above.

Untitled (Asian Dock Worker)

Walter Ronald Locke, 1940

Pencil drawing of a seated man in period dress with lace cuffs, shown in a shaded interior with a chair.

Seated Man in Eighteenth Century Dress

William Page, 1810

Watercolor of yellow bushpoppy flowers and buds on reddish stems with narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Bushpoppy (Dendromecon rigidum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Pastel portrait of a bandaged French soldier in a kepi and dark coat, drawn on green paper.

Un Poilu Blesse, 1915

Henri Gervex, 1910

Charcoal drawing of a bearded soldier with rifle standing in a rain-soaked field under falling rain.

Les Poilus

Louis Abel Truchet, 1910

Watercolor of a red-flowered plant with round green leaves and fringed pink blossoms on slender stems against a pale backgrou

Schizocodon soldanelloides

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of Pussy-ears flowers with pale lavender blossoms, buds, a seed pod and long green leaves on a cream background.

Pussy-ears (Calochortus elegans)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a soldier crouching in a snowy trench beside leafless willow trees.

In the Trenches, Winter

Paul-Michel Dupuy, 1910

Watercolor of a rosette plant with pink flower clusters and reddish buds on slender stems against a pale background.

Untitled - Mary Vaux Walcott, 1936

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1936

Watercolor of a branch of pink azalea flowers with red stamens and green leaves on a brown stem against a pale background.

Downy Pinxter Bloom (Azalea rosea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Drawing of a nurse with a red cross armband standing beside a patient lying in a hospital bed.

Nurse and Patient

Jules Cayron, 1910

Pencil drawing of a barefoot young boy in overalls and suspenders standing with one hand on his hip beside a wall corner.

Untitled (Portrait of a Young Boy, Coconut Grove, Florida)

Walter Ronald Locke, 1930

Watercolor of a boatman poling a wooden boat through a bayou lined with gnarled cypress roots and palms.

Bayou Boatman, Florida

Walter Ronald Locke, 1940

Pencil drawing of a seated woman in a loose blouse with a flower in her hair, hands clasped in her lap.

Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman)

Walter Ronald Locke, 1920

Watercolor of a purple Eustoma russelianum flowering stem with open blossoms, green buds, and long leaves on cream paper.

Eustoma russelianum

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of orange California poppies with buds, seed pods and feathery green leaves on a pale background.

California Poppy (Eschscholtzia californica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Watercolor of a yellow evening primrose bloom, a red flower, buds and green leaves on slender stems.

Evening Primrose (Oenothera howardi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1928

Watercolor of a branch with green leaves, red stems and clusters of pale bell-shaped flowers on cream paper.

Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Stylized painting of a steamship above brick walls and stairs, with a man carrying a package and a woman beside a bicycle.

Freed Flag, from the United Nations Series

Peter Sekaer, 1940

Watercolor of Showy Orchis plants with purple and white flowers and broad green leaves on a cream background.

Showy Orchis (Orchis spectabilis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920