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Painting of a Mandan village of domed earth lodges with figures, horses, tall ceremonial poles, and green hills beyond.

Bird's-eye View of the Mandan Village, 1800 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Two mourners beside a painted Egyptian sarcophagus with a gold face in a hieroglyph-decorated room.

Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt

Charles Sprague Pearce, 1870

Painting of a rocky coastline with breaking waves, sailboats on the distant sea, and a cloudy sky.

Castle Rock, Marblehead

Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1870

Painting of two seated men, dogs, and a family outside a rustic cabin doorway with a cabbage and fishing net nearby.

A Dog Swap

Richard Norris Brooke, 1880

Painted valley with wooded mountains, cattle grazing, and three figures resting on rocks in the foreground.

Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York

Asher Brown Durand, 1840

Painting of cows grazing in a green meadow under trees, with a woman on a path and distant snowy mountains.

Driving Home the Cows

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of a snowy village with a horse-drawn cart, two figures exchanging an item, a dog, and snow-covered cottages under d

Village Scene

George Overbury "Pop" Hart, 1930

Painting of a seated woman in blue skirt on a wooden chair beside a sunlit garden with flowers and a figure behind.

Woman Seated in a Garden

Eliphalet Fraser Andrews, 1910

Painting of three nude women by a river with tall trees, wooded hills, and a pale yellow sky.

Three Girls and River

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Painting of dark trees above a meadow with two grazing cows, under a cloudy sky with hills and water in the distance.

Untitled (landscape with trees and two cows in meadow)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of Plains men in feathered headdresses gathered around a spread buffalo hide and upright staff on open grassland.

Medicine Buffalo of the Sioux

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of stacked lumber under a white tarp beside a white picket gate, with scattered boards on a paved road.

Dutton Lumber Yard

Thomas Weeks Barrett, 1940

Painting of a wooded landscape with cows wading in a stream beside a wooden bridge, under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (forest scene with bridge, cows in stream in foreground)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Brown ink drawing of three seated allegorical women, Justice with scales at center, a warrior with sword and shield left, and

Cartoon for mural of Minnesota State Capital, "Institute of Justice"

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Figures in feathered headdresses gather on sand near red boulders and a dune, one playing a drum, under a blue sky.

Sioux Worshiping at the Red Boulders

George Catlin, 1830

Loose brushwork painting of a rocky hillside beside calm water with distant hills under a warm, hazy sky.

Untitled (landscape with rocks)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a sunlit field with haystacks, trees and distant hills under a pale sky with pink clouds.

The Hill Field

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1910

Painting of rough surf, two gulls, a small sailboat, and sunlit cliffs under a pale sky, in a gold-edged frame.

Two Gulls and Cliffs

Louis Eilshemius, 1920

Painting of several cows grazing in an open pasture with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.

Cows

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a dying bison lying on grass, blood running from its mouth and flank, with an arrow in its side.

Dying Buffalo, Shot with an Arrow

George Catlin, 1830

Painted sketch of a seated robed woman holding balanced scales, flanked by lions and winged staffs, within a decorative borde

Sketch for Mosaic, Wisconsin State Capital, "Justice"

Kenyon Cox, 1910

Painting of a man guiding two red oxen pulling a log-laden cart in a sunlit forest clearing, with a boy carrying an axe.

Untitled (boy and man with oxen)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a woman in a top hat on a chestnut horse and a man in a bowler hat on a dark horse on a wooded path.

Figures on Horseback

Eliphalet Fraser Andrews, 1910

Painting of hunters on snowshoes lancing bison across a snowy plain under a grey winter sky, by George Catlin.

Sioux Indians on Snowshoes Lancing Buffalo

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of dark trees silhouetted against a glowing yellow and rose sky, with still water in the foreground.

Sunrise

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Candlelit tavern scene with smoking men, a woman pouring from a tankard, and a waiter with a tray at a wooden table.

Dutch Tavern Scene

Johann Mongles Culverhouse, 1840

Buffalo herd and two elk grazing on a sunlit prairie with wildflowers, hills and trees under a cloudy sky.

Elk and Buffalo Grazing among Prairie Flowers, Texas

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of cows grazing near a pond, with a farmhouse, a row of trees, and a figure on a path under cloudy sky.

Untitled (man with cows grazing near pond with house and trees in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a brown-sailed boat on dark water at sunset, with distant ships and a glowing orange sky.

Boston Harbor

Charles Manger, 1860

Painting of women gleaning potatoes in a turned field, with a horse-drawn cart and pale horses under a golden hazy sky.

Potato Gleaners

Herman Hartwich, 1920