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Pastel portrait study of a dark-haired man with a mustache, head only, against a brown background.

Ali Kuli Khan

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a bonnet and lace collar, head tilted back against a chair, on tan paper.

Consumptive Young Lady of New Orleans

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of the village of San Piero a Grado with a tall bell tower, tiled roofs and trees under a pale sky.

San Piero a Grado, near Pisa

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman in a wide black hat with a feather, wearing a green jacket and pearl necklace.

Hat and Shadow

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil drawing of a stone fortress with a round tower and battlements rising above a harbor edge with mooring posts.

Civitavecchia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch on cream paper showing several studies of horses, including legs, hooves and a bowed head.

Horses

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pastel portrait of a mustached man in a gold turban, yellow robe and pink scarf against a green background.

Gold Turban

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Drawing of a man in a red fez and ottoman-style costume with a red sash, holding a cane beside a column.

Venetian Man

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pencil sketch of San Xavier Mission with twin bell towers, a domed roof, cacti and small figures in the foreground.

Untitled (transfer drawing for San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona)

George Elbert Burr, 1920

Charcoal and yellow chalk drawing of a crouching boy reaching toward a snake on blue-grey paper.

Crouching Boy with Snake

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a flat valley with palm trees and cliffs in the distance, labelled Thebes.

Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a village with a church spire in a valley below mountains.

(Sketchbook) Down Rhone Valley from Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pastel drawing of a standing woman in a dark hooded robe against a blue and red background on brown paper.

Sara Algood As Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Chicago, 1915

William Penhallow Henderson

Pencil sketch on pale blue paper of two Turkish women, one in a white muslin summer dress and one veiled in a riding cloak.

Turkish Woman (summer dress/riding attire)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil drawing of a young man in a cap and tunic seated and holding a lute, over a faint grid of transfer lines.

(Untitled) (Young Man with Lute)

Louise Cox, 1900

Pastel portrait of a smiling woman in a dark gown with a black cat, seated before a patterned screen and colorful cushion.

The Decorator

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of Nazareth showing a minaret, domed building, cypress trees and stone walls under a pale sky.

Nazareth

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Graphite study of a seated nude woman reading an open book, with faint grid lines, by Kenyon Cox.

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

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pen and ink caricature of two laughing men in bowler hats seated at a dinner table with wine glasses and a carafe.

Untitled - Ralph Barton

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a stone arched bridge over a river, with shrubs and a hillside behind it.

Greek Bridge at Azani

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of two tall stems with clusters of orange four-petaled wallflower blooms and narrow green leaves.

Wallflower (Erysimum wheeleri)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Charcoal sketch of a standing soldier in a plumed helmet and uniform, holding a rifle, drawn on tan paper.

A Soldier

Jean-Paul Laurens, 1920

Pencil sketch of a mud-brick village on a Nile riverbank with small figures on a path and a mast at right.

On the Nile

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Sepia drawing of flat-topped mesas on a desert plain under a sun with radiating rays and clouds.

Untitled (transfer drawing for print)

George Elbert Burr, 1920

Charcoal drawing of moored boats and rowboats on water in a harbor, with waterfront buildings and masts behind.

London in the Pool

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a rugged mountain range above a horizon line, with a small rocky headland at lower left.

Patmos

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pen and ink sketch of three heads of a woman in different poses, with handwritten French and Italian notes on the page.

Three Portrait Heads of a Woman

Albert Besnard, 1910

Watercolor of clowns in striped costumes falling from brown horses on a dusty ground, with green trees behind.

Clowns and Horses

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Pencil sketch of Karnak ruins with a tall obelisk, stone walls, scattered blocks and carved hieroglyphs in the foreground.

Carnac

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Painting of a woman in a yellow gown seated beside a carved bench, with her reflection visible in a mirror behind her.

Reflected Grace

Alice Pike Barney, 1900