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Oil portrait of a woman in a white satin gown with lace, seated before a dark tree and cloudy sky.

Portrait of Lucy Parry, Wife of Admiral Parry

John Wollaston the Younger, 1745

Half-circle oil sketch of arid mountains with snow peaks, red-ochre tones, and animals grazing by water.

Untitled (sketch for mural in Eastern Oregon)

C. S. Price, 1940

Two women with a pitchfork and a sheep walk across a dusky hillside under a yellow sunset sky.

Bringing home the new born lamb

Elliott Daingerfield, 1890

Painting of a pale rocky cliff face behind a gnarled oak tree and green meadow under a cloudy sky.

Oaks and Rocks--San Luis Obispo

Edward Bruce, 1930

Muted brown painting of a village with dome-roofed houses, a central fire, dancing figures inside a post circle, and trees.

The Town of Secota

Spencer Nichols

Painting of a woman in a red headscarf cradling a sleeping infant, with a pale sky and sea horizon behind her.

The Happy Mother

Painting of a wide river curving past grassy bluffs, with small figures on the edge and a distant village under a streaked sk

Distant View of the Mandan Village

George Catlin, 1832

Painting of a tall ship with white sails spread at a wooden pier, reflected in calm green harbor water.

Drying Sails

Griffith Baily Coale, 1890

Blue-toned painting of a kneeling woman reaching toward moonlit water, with a pale standing figure behind her on a shore.

Moses in the Bullrushes

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1921

Stylized painting of a white bird, palm fronds, and a distant volcano with smoke over a turquoise sea and blue mountains.

Neapolitan Song

Joseph Stella, 1929

Painting of an adult woman with facial markings and a gourd, beside a young girl in a beaded necklace holding a small doll.

A Chiefe Herowan's Wife of Pomeoc and Daughter

Spencer Nichols

Full-length painting of a bearded man with a paddle beside a lake and mountains under a cloudy sky.

Australian Man

Antonio Zeno Shindler, 1893

Loose painting of slender autumn trees with yellow leaves above a green meadow and red shrubs.

Royal Oak

William Henry Holmes, 1932

Full-length painting of a standing man with patterned body markings, drawing a bow with an arrow, against a pale background.

A Chiefe of Florida

Spencer Nichols

Seated nude woman with an open book and a small flower in a sunny grassy hillside, looking upward.

The Open Book

J. Alden Weir, 1891

Painting of Black women in headwraps and aprons in a dim interior as an elderly white woman in black stands at right.

A Visit from the Old Mistress

Winslow Homer, 1876

Painted view of a palisaded village with arched dwellings around a central fire, with figures gathered in the open plaza.

The Town of Pomeiock

Spencer Nichols

Watercolor of a half-timbered medieval house with a steep gable and pedestrians walking a cobbled street.

Old House in Rouen

Cass Gilbert, 1932

Loosely painted portrait of an older bearded man with glasses against a red-brown background, wearing a light jacket.

Self-Portrait

William de Leftwich Dodge, 1925

Painting of a bare-chested man in a feathered headdress and loincloth, leaping with arms raised against a pale background.

The Conjurer or the Flyer

Spencer Nichols

Painting of a woman in a white gown flanked by two children before a dark tree and teal sky.

My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1897

Painting of a woman in a grey dress holding a glass vase with a pink carnation by a sunlit window with flowers.

June

John White Alexander, 1911

Decorative mural study of ocean liners, a warship, and sailing boats before a stylized city skyline with airships overhead.

Shipping (mural study)

Griffith Baily Coale, 1920

Watercolor costume study of a bearded man in a red and blue turban, black embroidered jacket and red striped trousers.

Costume of Beder Khan Bey

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1814

Painting of a rocky mountain valley with pine trees, a winding road, and billowing clouds above a granite peak.

Road in the Cuyamacas

Charles Reiffel, 1933

Painting of figures in a canoe and wading men spearing fish in shallow water beside a stake fence, with birds overhead.

The Manner of Their Fishing

Spencer Nichols

Oil portrait of a young child in a red polka-dot dress and white lace collar, seated in a chair holding a cane.

Samuel Warren Holland, Aged Two Years

Milton W. Hopkins

Oil portrait of a family of four in a garden setting with trees, a stone wall, and a distant windmill and river.

The Wiley Family

William Williams, 1771

Triangular painting of green and brown mountains with an arched tunnel, railway tracks and a winding path under a pale sky.

Triangular Mountainscape with Tunnel

n.d Dana Smith, 1900

Painting of a farmer carrying a pitchfork across an autumn field past haystacks, a birch tree, and colorful trees.

Return from the Farm

Elliott Daingerfield, 1915