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Three women in long dresses stand on a dusky green lawn under a crescent moon, painted in soft tonal brushwork.

In the Garden

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Landscape painting of ruined classical columns in foreground overlooking a bay with sailboats and a mountain under a cloudy s

Pompeii

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Painted rural homestead with poplars, a pond, laundry on a picket fence, and women working in a field under a cloudy sky.

Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature

Andrew W. Warren, 1850

Autumn lake scene with wooded hills, a steamboat and sailboat, and figures on a rocky ledge in the foreground.

Greenwood Lake

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1870

Painting of granite cliffs above pine trees reflected in a calm river in a valley.

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1870

Still life painting of white and pink roses in a glass vase on a ceramic dish, with fallen petals on a stone ledge.

Roses

John Ferguson Weir, 1890

Painting of rocky desert mountains, a stone hut, a lone cypress, and two robed men resting in the foreground.

The Top of Mount Sinai with the Chapel of Elijah

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1880

Geometric painting of a red macaw and a white bird among bold blue, green, and black shapes with floral patterns.

The Thundershower

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Seated man in red fez and white fustanella costume beside a hookah, with a sword and a distant hilltop view.

Portrait of John B. Carmac, in Greek Evzone Costume

Walter Gould, 1850

Oil painting of a tall waterfall between forested cliffs, with a river in the foreground under a warm, cloudy sky.

Waterfall on Mont-Morency

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1860

Painting of a snow-capped volcano rising above dark slopes and rounded white clouds against a deep blue sky.

Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning-- Mexico

Marsden Hartley, 1930

Painting of a figure with a basket fishing a rapid river among boulders and yellow shrubs, with pebbles in the foreground.

After Them

Walter Ufer, 1920

Painting of a river flowing through a valley between tall granite cliffs with pine trees and a hazy distant range.

Gates of the Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt, 1880

Interior scene by a fireplace: a man sorting corn, a woman in a yellow apron, and a man reading a map of valuable lots.

The Speculator

Francis William Edmonds, 1850

Painting of two women in a grassy meadow with a flower basket, and a line of women holding hands in the distance.

Spring

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Oil landscape of a white columned house on a hill surrounded by trees, with a fence and small figure in the foreground.

Mount Healthy, Ohio

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1840

Painting of a rainbow arching over a misty canyon with sunlit rock pinnacles, a distant waterfall, and a lone pine.

Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1900

Hazy painting of Niagara Falls with mist, a rosy smoky sky, a distant smokestack, and small figures in the foreground.

Niagara

George Inness, 1880

Misty river valley with rocky cliff, leaning pine, distant mountains and small figures on a ledge at right.

Along the Hudson

John Frederick Kensett, 1850

Painting of a café interior with seated figures on a stone platform, a standing man in white robes, and a sunlit arched doorw

Cafe at Biskra, Algeria

Frederic Arthur Bridgman, 1880

Painting of a radiating sun over angular red mountains and a small fountain in a blue pool, in bold flat shapes.

Yliaster (Paracelsus)

Marsden Hartley, 1930

Painting of a woman carrying grain across a dusky pasture with grazing cattle, trees, a haystack, and a setting sun.

Sundown

George Inness, 1880

Sunset painting of a moored sailboat on a tidal shore, a rowboat on calm water, and a child on the beach.

By the Seaside, New Jersey Shore

Francis A. Silva, 1880

Painting of a mountain above a calm lake at sunset, with a small rowboat and reddish trees reflected in the water.

Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860

Painting of a white country house on a grassy hill with a family walking on a path beneath tall trees.

Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.

Thomas Birch, 1810

Painting of three nude women and a clothed woman in a pastoral field at dusk, with a shepherd and dog in the distance.

An Eclogue

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Woman seated from behind at a spinet in a room with floral patterned walls, a small mirror, and a vase of flowers.

The Spinet

Thomas Dewing, 1900

Painting of a dense garden of pink and white roses and white carnations among dark green leaves.

Garden in May

Maria Oakey Dewing, 1890

Man in waistcoat smoking a pipe, legs up on a porch railing, with sunlit trees beyond.

Independence (Squire Jack Porter)

Frank Blackwell Mayer, 1850

Painting of Sierra Nevada peaks, waterfalls and a lake with deer and ducks under sunlit storm clouds.

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1860