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Pencil sketch of a wooden manufacturing machine with a toothed gear, lever and open hatch on a pale sheet.

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (Manufactures, study for panel)

Watercolor sketch of a wheelbarrow above a sprig of wild thyme with pink flowers and handwritten notes.

St. Valery-Blow-Wild Thyme

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel drawing of a sunlit colonial graveyard with weathered arched headstones, grass, a brick wall and trees.

Colonial Graveyard at Lexington

Childe Hassam, 1890

Pencil sketch of a calm shoreline with marsh grasses, shrubs and trees on the right and water extending to a distant horizon.

Untitled (Shoreline)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of Medinet Habu temple ruins at Thebes, with a pylon, columns and desert hills behind.

Medinet El Harbor, Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen drawing of plant stems, buds and leaves with a central tower-like form radiating lines, on aged paper.

"Sound Construction" study

Solon H. Borglum, 1910

Pastel portrait of a young girl with long brown hair beside a fluffy gray cat with green eyes.

Minette and Minet

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of ruined stone theatre seating and crumbling buildings in the foreground, with distant hills under a pale sky.

View from the Theatre at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a stone archway and columns with carved ornament and a small figure in a niche at upper left.

Untitled - Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

The Feathered Hat

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a steep rocky mountain slope above a shoreline town with a cluster of buildings and trees.

Scylla

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Charcoal sketch of two bears, one in the foreground and one behind it, drawn in loose dark tonal strokes on cream paper.

Bears

Henry Keller, 1930

Dreamland

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil drawing on ochre paper of a steep cliff-faced mountain above foothills and a small town, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg.

Villajoyosa, Spain

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1850

(Untitled--Head, Two Women, studies)

George Grey Barnard, 1920

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (Agriculture, study for panel)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a multi-sided pedestal topped with ornate scrolled forms, on pale paper.

(Star-shaped structure)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel portrait of a young blonde woman in a dark garment with a gold necklace, against a red background, with the name Berth

Bertha

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a two-masted sailing boat on misty, calm water near a shoreline in Nevin, North Wales.

Foggy Morning, Nevin, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of church towers, a sailing boat and a rowboat on calm water with a distant town skyline.

Study (Adage)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of several nude figures in swimming and diving poses on tan paper, covered by tissue.

Swimming Nudes

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil sketch of a row of leafy trees above a flat meadow, with handwritten inscription about Windsor below.

In the Meadows at Windsor

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a turban and robe seated on a ledge, with handwritten inscription below.

Achmet, Cairo

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a yellow dress and green turban, arms resting on a carved wooden chair.

Laura Dreyfus Barney

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Open sketchbook with pencil drawing of trees, a small building and mountains near Sion, dated March 1894.

(Sketchbook) Near Sion

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a coastal scene with a sailboat, a round tower on the right, and a hillside town on the left.

Bari

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Untitled (Seated Draped Female Figure, Profile)

Louise Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a crowd of figures marching across a dim, open field on tan paper.

The Night March

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Pencil sketches of Egyptian vessels, a column capital with a face, and a leg study, with handwritten notes on aged paper.

Tomb of Kings, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch sheet with several studies of birds in flight and perched, drawn in loose graphite lines on cream paper.

Birds

Solon H. Borglum, 1920