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Painting of peasants with cattle, goats and sheep beside a rocky cliff and stone house under a cloudy sky.

Peasants and Cattle

Nicholaes Berchem, 1620

Painting of several women in a colorful landscape by a blue river, one standing in a red skirt and others kneeling or reclini

(Women in Landscape with Blue Border)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of a crowded beach with striped umbrellas, a turreted seaside house, willow trees, and people in summer clothing.

Beach Umbrellas at Blue Point

William Glackens, 1910

Painting of Niagara's Horseshoe Fall with a rainbow, small figures on a rocky ledge, and dark storm clouds overhead.

The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara

Alvan Fisher, 1820

Sunlit ochre villa with a square tower, red roofs, palm tree and trees in front, under a pale blue sky.

Villa Malta, Rome

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1870

Still life of split watermelon, cantaloupe, and morning glory vines with a dark glass on a table.

Melons and Morning Glories

Raphaelle Peale, 1810

Loose oil painting of turquoise sea framed by dark cliffs and a grassy headland under a pale, cloudy sky.

Cornish Headlands

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Painting of mounted hunters chasing a buffalo herd across green hills, with fallen buffalo and rocky bluffs in the distance.

Buffalo Chase, Mouth of the Yellowstone

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of the snowy Cotopaxi volcano emitting smoke above a plain, with a white hacienda and figures in the foreground.

Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil painting of a sailing ship and schooners near icebergs in calm water under a warm, cloudy sky.

Looking out of Battle Harbor

William Bradford, 1870

Muted blue-gray night landscape with a large gnarled oak, a pale full moon, and two cloaked figures walking across a plain.

Abraham's Oak

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1900

Group portrait of a family in a garden with trees, a stone wall, and a distant river landscape with a windmill.

The Wiley Family

William Williams, 1770

Oil painting of a waterfall spilling into a pool among rocky cliffs and trees, with three small figures on the shore.

Mountain Pool

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Painting of a steep rocky hillside with a mine road, a small white building, and a rowboat on a calm green lake.

The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York

Homer Dodge Martin, 1860

Painting of a ruined brick tower on a plain with broken stones, a goat, a seated figure, and distant mountains at dusk.

Torre di Schiavi

Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, 1860

Painting of a valley with a rainbow over wooded hills, grazing cattle, two walking figures and a large tree in the foreground

Landscape with Rainbow

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Four men in red feathered headdresses and face paint, wearing beaded necklaces and fur robes, painted against a dark backgrou

Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees

Charles Bird King, 1820

Night scene of a pale horse drinking at a pool while mounted riders, one with a raised arm, stand in shadow behind it.

Fired On

Frederic Remington, 1900

Two women seated at a long table in a pale room, one reading an open book, the other holding a flower sprig, with a vase betw

A Reading

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Trompe l'oeil painting of a torn landscape with a cottage and waterfall, bound with string and pasted with express shipping l

Torn in Transit

John Haberle, 1890

Painting of a steamboat with barges and rowboats on a calm river beneath mountains and dramatic storm clouds.

Storm King on the Hudson

Samuel Colman, 1860

Abstract landscape with a dark sun over yellow and orange layered sky, wavy blue and green hills, and brown earth below.

Sun

Arthur Dove, 1940

Painting of a mounted warrior with a black horse raising a feathered lance across a prairie landscape.

Ko-rak-koo-kiss, a Towoccono Warrior

John Mix Stanley, 1840

Painting of seated men in a circle around fires and cooking pots, with two large tipis and a feathered ceremonial pole behind

Sioux Dog Feast

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a red stagecoach on a dirt road beside a white cottage with poplar trees, hills and clouds behind.

Landscape with Stagecoach

Henry Boese, 1850

Painting of green and red aurora over icy hills and a two-masted ship on frozen water at night.

Aurora Borealis

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Painting of two women in a misty green meadow beneath a band of trees, one seated in blue and one standing in a dark dress.

The Hermit Thrush

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Woman with a hoe tending cabbages in a rural garden beside a fence and whitewashed buildings, painted in loose brushwork.

Novembre, Etaples

Walter Gay, 1880

Painting of a dim interior: an older woman in black with lace collar faces several Black women in headscarves beside a brick

A Visit from the Old Mistress

Winslow Homer, 1870

Oil painting of a snowy farmstead with a red house, barn, horse-drawn sleigh, figures and dogs under a dark winter sky.

Winter Scene in New Haven, Connecticut

George Henry Durrie, 1850