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Pastel poster design of a woman in a large feathered hat with a blue ribbon, with 'Friendship Hat Sale' lettering in the marg

Hat Sale Poster

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch on cream paper of several small putti figures, one winged, with cursive inscription along the right edge.

Putti (sketches of Venice)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of an old arched stone bridge over a river, with a small boat, a riverside town, and hills behind.

Old Bridge at Heidelburg

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Victor Chapman

John Elliott, 1920

Charcoal and chalk drawing on blue paper of stone temple columns and blocks at Karnak in moonlight.

Temple of Carnac--Moonlight (Egypt)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch in a sketchbook of old stone towers rising above trees, with a handwritten caption reading Old Towers, Laufenbe

(Sketchbook) Old Towers, Laufenberg

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark upswept hair and blue eyes on a brown paper ground.

Laura Attentive

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pencil sketch of rolling hills and distant mountains with shrubs in the foreground, inscribed with a view from Tabor.

Tabor

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor landscape of a pale road winding past green trees toward distant blue hills under a soft sky.

On the Albi Road

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

General Grant

James Edward Kelly, 1880

Pencil sketch of a jagged central mountain peak with ridges and a small boat near the shore, on tan paper.

Horeb, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman with short dark hair and colorful earrings, holding pink drapery against her chest.

Model Holding Drapery

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pastel stage design of a night garden with flowers, a seated figure on a mushroom pedestal, and blue framing curtains.

Garden of Flowers (set design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson, 1910

Pencil sketch of a stone doorway with carved corbels and an arched lintel set in an ashlar block wall.

Malta, Entrance to a Courtyard at Citta Vecchia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of waves breaking over rocky coastline with a small sailboat on the horizon.

Bordighera, Italy

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of caricatured musicians playing double bass, horn, drum and lute outdoors, with a building in the background.

The Muses

David Claypoole Johnston, 1830

Pencil sketch of a tall lone cypress tree among rocky cliffs and a stone building on Mount Sinai.

Oak Tree on Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a riverside town with a church with twin towers above rows of houses.

(Sketchbook) Laufenberg

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel portrait sketch of a bespectacled, mustached man with tousled hair on brown paper, signed and dated 1900.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Watercolor and pencil sketch of ships at sea, a wooded coast, a boat hull study, and a plant drawing with handwritten notes.

Coastal Scene

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Graphite study of a draped seated figure with a hooded fabric arch over the head, over a faint grid.

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

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pastel portrait of a woman with dark curly hair looking down, holding a red and yellow fan against a gray background.

Study with Fan

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Pencil sketch of a bathing place with a flagpole, watchtower, small wooden huts, pilings and trees under a pale sky.

Bathing Place, St. Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Sepia portrait drawing of a young man in U.S. military uniform and garrison cap, with Latin inscription above.

Hamilton Coolidge

John Elliott, 1920

Blue-toned pastel drawing of a marsh at dusk with a winding stream, reeds, and dark wooded hills under a pale sky.

Marshlands at Sundown

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a hatched mountain above a horizon with layered island silhouettes labeled Little Milo, Milo, and Kimolo.

Cimolus/Melos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of a seated woman seen from behind in a period dress, with tall windows suggested in the background.

Ella at the Piano

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pastel portrait of a young woman with a tilted head against sweeping green and brown strokes.

Freda

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Pencil sketch of a reclining lion beside a scrolled architectural bracket and stylized foliage, with handwritten inscription.

Theatre at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Red chalk portrait of a young man in a naval cap and high-collared uniform, looking directly at the viewer.

Richard McCall Elliot, Jr.

John Elliott, 1920