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Painting of an elderly couple seated in a parlor with a green parrot, lace curtains, and an oval portrait on the wall.

Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase

George Bellows, 1924

Full-length portrait of a standing man in a dark robe with embroidered chest badge, black cap and beaded necklace.

Chinese Mandarin

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Portrait of Elizabeth Sweitzer Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1826

Painting of a large ball game on a grassy field with many players, tipis, spectators and rolling hills under a blue sky.

Ball-play of the Choctaw--Ball Up

George Catlin, 1846

Full-length painted portrait of a man in a red robe and black hat standing on a green-carpeted staircase before a wooded view

King of Korea

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Painting of a large sea eagle perched on a rock above choppy green water, with a sailing ship in the distance.

Washington Sea Eagle

John James Audubon, 1836

Painting of a potted cineraria with white and violet daisy-like flowers on a lace-covered table before blue curtains.

Josephine L. Reichmann - Cineraria

Josephine L. Reichmann, 1933

Red barn in snowy winter scene with sheep, chickens, and a farmer carrying hay under a red sunset sky.

Barnyard in Winter

Horatio Shaw, 1880

Soft-toned meadow painting with a woman holding a basket of white flowers, a seated figure, and a line of dancers in the dist

Spring

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Painting of pale, wild-haired witches tumbling through a dark sky, lit by a diagonal shaft of light across storm clouds.

Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches

William Holbrook Beard, 1850

Painting of a calm forest lake with pine trees on both shores, water lilies, reflections, and a glowing misty sky.

A North Woods Lake

Homer Dodge Martin, 1860

Painting of a boy digging a grave in a garden while a girl holds flowers and another child watches nearby.

Children Burying a Bird

J. Alden Weir, 1878

Painting of two rounded haystacks in a pale blue misty field with a small cart and distant figure under a cloudy sky.

Haystacks

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Oil portrait of a woman with long dark hair, beaded necklaces, fringed clothing and a dark blanket, against a cloudy backgrou

Chan-ku-wash-te-mine (Good Road Woman)

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1880

Portrait of a man in a blue cape with feathered headdress, beaded necklaces, face paint, and a small mirror.

Kee-mo-rá-nia, No English, a Dandy

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a winter forest with dark tree trunks and sunlit snow on the ground under a teal sky.

Woods in Winter

John F. Carlson, 1912

Painting of a large gnarled oak tree in a dense forest, with two small figures near the trunk and a pond in the foreground.

Oak Tree

Henry Ward Ranger, 1890

Painting of a small sailboat on calm water near a rocky point, with hazy green hills and a blue overcast sky.

Pale Blue Landscape

Louis Eilshemius, 1902

Painting of a woman in a rocking chair and a girl reading at a table in a warm, dim interior by a brick fireplace.

Sunday Morning

Thomas Waterman Wood, 1877

Three pink roseate spoonbills wade among green marsh grass under a lavender cloudy sky, painted in loose brushwork.

Roseate Spoonbills, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Painting of a bearded man behind a bar counter with bottles, shelves of glassware, a mirror, a door and a cat.

M. Baudy Behind his Desk at the Hotel Baudy

John Leslie Breck, 1888

Watercolor of a rocky hillside with blue and green trees and yellow shrubs under a pale sky.

Point Lobos Ernest Haskell

Painting of a white house with red roofs among dark green cypress trees, a blossoming tree and bold blue and orange hills.

Newman's House

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

The Victorian Chair

Childe Hassam, 1906

Painting of a young woman with dark hair in a pale pink high-necked blouse, eyes lowered, against a brown background.

A Gentlewoman

J. Alden Weir, 1906

Seated man in red blanket and beaded moccasins holding a pipe, against a dark wooded background, painted 1880.

Spotted Tail

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1880

Impressionist painting of a woman in a white dress holding poppies in a flower garden overlooking the sea.

In the Garden (Celia Thaxter in Her Garden)

Childe Hassam, 1892

Painting of a colonial leader in a tricorn hat pointing across a river valley as settlers with children and a ship gather.

Arrival of Colonel John Donaldson (design for mural)

Francis Luis Mora

Painting of figures harvesting corn in a golden field with mountains and clouds behind them.

Corn Harvest at Santo Domingo

Carl Moon, 1940

Watercolor of sunlit fluted Doric columns and stone steps of a classical temple, with grass and a fallen block in the foregro

(Temple)

Cass Gilbert, 1927