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Sepia pencil drawing of a man with short hair in a cravat and dark coat, shown head and shoulders, facing forward.

Head of a Gentleman

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of tall trees and two small figures walking a path beneath an open sky.

Souvenir of a Pleasant Dinner

George Elmer Browne, 1920

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

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pastel drawing of a garden corner with a slender young tree, flowering shrubs and a sunlit meadow beyond.

A Corner of the Garden

Daniel Kotz, 1910

Pencil and watercolor design of a winged figure above a green serpent-wrapped column, flanked by torches and an inscribed ped

(Untitled) (Mansfield 1907)

George Grey Barnard, 1900

Pen drawing of a narrow stepped street with an archway and timber balconies, with a pencil sketch of a turbaned head at left.

Steps and Doorways, Algiers

Charcoal and chalk portrait of a young woman with long flowing hair, looking directly at the viewer.

Natalie with Flowing Hair

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil drawing of a wind-bent tree on a hillside with snowy mountains in the distance at lower left.

Untitled (transfer drawing for The Home of the Winds [no. 1])

George Elbert Burr, 1910

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a sunlit path through a dark forest with tall trees and undergrowth.

Landscape with Path through Forest

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1900

Mrs. Fleming Newbold

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor of a man in a hat sketching outdoors under a white parasol, with trees behind him and an easel in front.

Max Weyl

William Henry Holmes, 1870

Pencil drawing of a rocky stream flowing through a hilly valley with boulders, shrubs and distant mountains.

Civitella, Italy

Johann Hermann Carmiencke, 1840

Charcoal study of a nude woman seen from behind, arms outstretched, with swirling drapery, on tan paper.

Untitled (study for ceiling, Empire Theatre, N.Y.)

William de Leftwich Dodge, 1900

Brown and white drawing of several geyser eruptions rising from rocky ground beneath a steamy sky, with pine trees at the hor

Yellowstone Geyser

Richard Norris Brooke, 1920

Brown wash and pencil study of a striding nude male figure with smaller sketches of a reclining figure and limbs.

(Untitled--Striding Figure)

George Grey Barnard, 1920

Watercolor of a Venetian church facade with Corinthian columns, a pediment, and an arched doorway under a blue sky.

La Salute, Venice

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1910

Pencil sketch of figures seated at a table in a ruined arched interior, drawn in loose crosshatched lines.

The Last Supper

Pencil drawing of an elderly woman in a headscarf reading a book in a chair beside a tiled stove.

(Woman Seated, Reading)

Thomas Charles Farrer, 1860

Architectural plan in watercolor of a triangular fountain with a central circular basin between Main Street and West Lane.

(Design for Fountain, Ridgefield, Connecticut)

Cass Gilbert, 1930

Elizabeth Dunn Finney

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1850

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man in a plumed hat and fringed jacket, reaching toward a sketched landscape, with a handwritte

Detail of cartoon for mural Westward the Course of Empire...

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Charcoal sketch of three figures in an interior room beside a doorway, with loose quick strokes and a signature in the lower

Untitled (Group of Figures)

George Luks, 1920

Watercolor and ink drawing of a feathered man paddling a canoe past rocks and pines, with a wrapped bundle in the boat.

Burial of a Papoose

Richard Norris Brooke, 1920

Charcoal and red chalk sketch of a curly-haired male head resembling a classical bust, on yellowed paper.

(Untitled--Head)

George Grey Barnard, 1920

Ink drawing of a smiling young girl with a long braid kneeling and reaching out one hand, signed Handforth.

Chinese Girl

Thomas Handforth, 1940

Pen and ink caricature of two anthropomorphic insects: a figure in a feathered hat and skirt facing a man in a top hat and ta

Insects

Oliver Herford, 1900

General John Newton

James Edward Kelly, 1890

Watercolor of a seated woman in a wide-brimmed hat seen from behind, with soft brown and blue washes around her.

(Woman with Hat and 2 Figures)

Charles Demuth, 1910

General Daniel Butterfield

James Edward Kelly, 1900

Anna May Wong

Alice Pike Barney, 1920