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Woman sorting corn kernels in a basin while a girl holds corn ears beside an adobe wall and clay pot.

Drying Corn

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of waves breaking on rocky coastline with people on the cliff and a sailboat on the horizon under blue sky.

Castle Rock, Nahant

William Stanley Haseltine, 1860

Sepia-toned painting of a city square with pedestrians, tall poles, stone buildings, and a classical colonnade at right.

La Madeleine at Dawn

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of rocky coastal headlands with turquoise sea waves breaking against cliffs under a pale sky.

Monhegan Headlands

William S. Robinson, 1910

Painting of a shaded blue arched street with robed figures, opening onto a sunlit square beyond the arch.

Street in Tangier

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Two horseback riders roping a longhorn bull in a landscape with mountains and a grazing herd.

Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody)

William Pollock, 1900

Painting of a reclining winged angel gazing upward on a stone pedestal against a black background.

Untitled (Angel)

Annie Cauley, 1870

Seated man reading an open book in a wood-paneled study with bookshelves, a desk, and a checkered floor.

Peter Bell Smith

John J. Porter, 1850

Classical landscape with a river, dancing figures, a lyre player, a ruined temple, and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Apollo and the Seasons (Classical Landscape)

Welsh Richard Wilson, 1770

Loose impressionist painting of a wild coastal landscape with dunes, scrub and a pale stretch of water under a pink and grey

Wild Coast, Newport

Homer Dodge Martin, 1880

Oil painting of a standing shirtless man with braided hair holding a spear and blade, with banana plant and hills behind him.

Niam-Niam Man

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Still life painting of a glass of wine with grapes, peach, plum, and hazelnuts on a white marble ledge.

Still Life with Fruit and Champagne

Helen Searle, 1860

Interior of a Gothic chapel with a carved wooden screen, tall stained glass windows, and figures in period dress.

King's College Chapel--Cambridge

David Roberts, 1830

Painting of pedestrians and bare trees along an iron fence in front of a stone building, in muted brown tones.

L' Odeon du Luxembourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Pearl of Grief

Mary Jane Peale, 1850

Painting of a war-damaged street with soldiers, civilians, rubble, and a wounded man supported by companions.

Episode of the Siege of Lille, 1792

Georges Gaston Theodore Melingue, 1890

Painting of an orange and purple sunset over a dark silhouetted landscape with a palm tree at left.

The Sky Simulated by Red Flamingoes, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Painting of a calm lake with mountains under a golden sky, dark trees on the right shore, and ducks in the reeds.

Upper Ausable Lake

Homer Dodge Martin, 1860

Painting of oxen pulling a loaded cart through a golden harvest field beside a river under a pale, swirling sky.

Harvest

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1910

Painted mural study of a woman and child at a homestead and two men building a barbed wire fence on the prairie.

The Homestead and the Building of the Barbed Wire Fences (Mural Study for Interior Building, General Land Office, Was…

John Steuart Curry, 1940

Akka Man

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Oil portrait of a seated man with long dark hair, red neckerchief and dark blanket against an ochre background.

Spotted Tail

Henry Ulke, 1870

Dim farmhouse interior with a girl in red standing by a doorway, sunlight on the floor, ladder and broom at right.

Interior of a Westphalian Cottage

Worthington Whittredge, 1850

Two women in green floral gowns and red shawls face a mirror in a bright, shimmering interior with a blue and white vase.

(Lady Reflected in Mirror)

Carl Newman, 1900

Oil portrait of a dark-haired woman in a dark shawl embracing a fair-haired young child against a dark background.

Mother Love

Charles Frederick Naegele, 1940

Loose blue-toned painting of two robed figures on a rooftop beside a dark dome, with a pale horizon behind them.

Study for Christ and Nicodemus on a Rooftop

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Dim interior painting of a bearded explorer gesturing before a court of richly dressed figures, with a globe and books on the

Columbus before the Queen

Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1840

Painting of a dark sailboat on rough night sea under a glowing moon with streaked clouds.

Moonlight

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1880

Hazy blue painting of a large arched building facade with two dark figures on horseback in the lower right corner.

Palace of Justice, Tangier

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Loose brushwork painting of a city street with bare trees, a horse-drawn carriage, pedestrians, and golden-lit buildings.

St. Germain des Pres no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920