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Two seated women in white Regency dresses, one holding an open book, before a landscape with a cloudy sky.

The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray

John Trumbull, 1800

Still life painting of a wicker basket overflowing with grapes, peaches and plums, with watermelon, pomegranate and strawberr

Still Life with Fruit

Severin Roesen, 1852

Oil painting of a tropical forest at sunset with a thatched house, a rider on a white horse, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of an orange gourd with a pink flower and green leaves against a dark, streaked background.

Still Life

Marsden Hartley, 1930

Painting of a white mansion on a wooded rise with figures on a path, a church spire at left, and a cloudy sky.

Southeast View of

Thomas Birch, 1819

Painting of a river flowing through a valley between tall granite cliffs, with pine trees and a cloudy sky.

Gates of the Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt, 1882

Painting of Paris rooftops with pink buildings, tall chimneys, blue shutters, green trees and a cloudy sky.

Rooftops, Paris

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of a seated man in green robes watching two women and a winged cupid before a red curtain and cloudy sky.

Helen Brought to Paris

Benjamin West, 1776

Painting of waves breaking on dark rocks at a seashore under an amber sky, with gulls and a distant buoy.

Rocky Seashore

Louis Eilshemius, 1902

Painting of a flock of white geese with spread wings flying diagonally against a dark green and black background.

Flock of Geese

Elizabeth Nourse, 1880

Dense tropical forest with tall trees and undergrowth, two small figures and a dog on a path below a cloudy sky.

Javanese Jungle

Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a seated man with a dog beneath a rock ledge overlooking a river valley, sailboats, and distant mountains.

Scene on the Hudson (Rip Van Winkle)

James Hamilton, 1845

Painting of a woman grinding corn at a stone metate in an adobe room, with colorful corn cobs and a watermelon on the floor.

Hopi Woman Grinding Corn

Carl Moon, 1940

Evening meadow with a low orange sun, a woman carrying hay, grazing cows, and a haystack beside farm buildings.

Sundown

George Inness, 1884

Painting of a mountain valley with smokestacks and small buildings, boulders and pine trees in the foreground under a cloudy

Leadville, Colorado

Harriet A. Harris, 1880

Three cows graze and stand in a golden autumn pasture with scattered trees and rocks under a soft cloudy sky.

The Pasture Lot

Carleton Wiggins, 1900

Painting of a dark winter forest with tall trunks, bare branches, and bright snow on the ground under a pale sky.

Brooding Silence

John F. Carlson, 1909

Painting of a red barn with dark roof on a hillside farm under a cloudy sky, with a dirt road in the foreground.

Bluemont Farm

Edward Bruce, 1932

Painting of mounted riders in colorful blankets among tall tipis on open prairie, with a wagon and dog in the foreground.

Ceremonial at Black Lake

Laverne Nelson Black, 1930

Two women seated at a long table in a pale room, one reading a book and the other holding flowers beside a vase.

A Reading

Thomas Dewing, 1897

Painting of officers and civilians in a formal room, with two men shaking hands over a table beneath a chandelier.

The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814

Amédée Forestier, 1914

Abstract landscape painting with bold geometric shapes in red, orange, green and blue, showing stylized trees, a path and a h

Scheherazade

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painted scene of feathered dancers running around a drum while spectators watch from earth lodges under a cloudy sky.

The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, 1832

Painting of large waves crashing with white foam against dark brown rocks under a pale overcast sky.

Heavy Sea

Paul Dougherty, 1918

Abstract landscape painting with angular houses, a garden path and hills in bold red, green, blue and yellow planes.

Abstract Landscape

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of a stormy sea, a sailboat, a hilltop stone tower and snowy mountains under cumulus clouds.

The Coast of Genoa

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1854

Loose oil sketch of a park path with a bearded man, a child, a woman with a parasol, and sailboat masts.

The Man Who Rented Boats

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859

Painting of seated figures around a campfire and tipi beneath a tall granite cliff at dusk, with horses and trees.

Indians in Council, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1870

Still life of cream and pink roses in a glass vase on a white dish, with fallen petals on a pale stone ledge.

Roses

John Ferguson Weir, 1898

Woman in a white dress playing piano by a window, with poppies in glass vases and a framed picture on a green wall.

Improvisation

Childe Hassam, 1899

Painting of sunlit jagged mountain peaks above clouds and dark pine trees under a teal sky.

Switzerland--Near Valery

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Painting of seated figures around a campfire by tipis, horses nearby, with a tall granite cliff behind trees at dusk.

Indians in Council, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1872

Painting of a pastoral valley with a rainbow over wooded hills, grazing cattle, two walking figures, and a calm river.

Landscape with Rainbow

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1859

Painting of a surreal mountain landscape with a soaring eagle, red peaks, pale rock spires, a lake, and two reclining figures

Nirwana

Max Reyher, 1920

Painting of a dusty adobe town plaza with a white church, ox cart, carriage, covered wagon, and riders under a cloudy sky.

Old Mesilla Plaza

Léon Trousset, 1885

Painting of two women in a green meadow beneath a dense line of trees, one in a blue dress seated, one standing in a hat.

The Hermit Thrush

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Painting of a city waterfront at sunset with masted ships, billowing clouds, brick buildings and small figures on the street.

Cumulus Clouds, East River

Robert Henri, 1900

Watercolor of Battle Abbey's tall gabled stone facade with pointed windows, walking figures on a dirt path, and trees.

Battle Abbey

Cass Gilbert, 1931

Woman seated at a spinet from behind, in a warm room with floral wallpaper, a mirror, and a vase of yellow flowers.

The Spinet

Thomas Dewing, 1902

Oil painting of a laurel-crowned young man with paper, a winged cupid, and a draped woman with a staff in a landscape.

Musa Regina

Henry O. Walker, 1900

Painting of a man with a basket fishing by rushing rapids, surrounded by boulders and golden shrubs.

After Them

Walter Ufer, 1928

Painting of a dark cave opening framing calm water, jagged rock spires, a small boat and a glowing hazy sky.

The Subsiding of the Waters of the Deluge

Thomas Cole, 1829

Painted river landscape with boats, rocky mountains, a windmill on a hill, a castle, and a village under a cloudy sky.

Landscape

Herman Saftleven, 1600

Painting of two seated men with dogs outside a rustic cabin, a woman and children in the doorway, cabbage and buckets nearby.

A Dog Swap

Richard Norris Brooke, 1881

Painting of Niagara Falls with two cataracts, forested banks, storm clouds, and small figures on the foreground rocks.

A General View of the Falls of Niagara

Alvan Fisher, 1820

Painting of a river flanked by colorful angular houses, a tree, and factory chimneys under a blue sky.

Evening Tones

Oscar Bluemner, 1910

Watercolor of a French village with a shepherd leading sheep along a path toward stone houses and a church tower.

French Village

H. Anthony Dyer, 1901

Painting of a riverside factory town with red smokestacks, yellow roofs, and blue water in bold angular shapes.

Evening Tones

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, 1911

Painting of a sunlit forest clearing with large autumn oak trees and two small figures in the grass.

October

Robert C. Minor, 1830

Watercolor of a village of tiled-roof houses beside a green field, with two figures walking a winding path under a pale sky.

Kansas City, Kansas

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1859

Calm lake under cumulus clouds with shadowed mountains, a village shoreline, and small boats on the water.

Lago Maggiore

William Stanley Haseltine, 1867

Painting of a medieval procession of knights, banners and carts moving toward a hilltop castle under a cloudy sky.

The Departure of the Crusaders

Victor Nehlig, 1860

Painting of Sierra Nevada peaks, a waterfall and elk by a lake under dramatic sunlit clouds.

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1868

Painting of two sailing boats on a calm sea at sunset, with a lighthouse and distant boats on the horizon under a pink sky.

Afternoon on Saco Bay, Coast of Maine

Willem Frederik de Haas, 1874

Soft, hazy winter landscape with a brook winding through snowy fields and trees on a hilltop.

The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Interior genre scene: a man shelling corn, a woman by the hearth, and a gentleman reading a map of lots.

The Speculator

Francis William Edmonds, 1852

Oil painting of a reclining nude woman in white stockings on a draped cloth, with loose sketchy background strokes.

Reclining Nude

Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1909

Painting of the schooner yacht America under full white sails on choppy water, with an American flag and small red boat.

The Yacht America

Charles S. Raleigh, 1870

Painting of a deep rocky gorge with a robed shepherd and sheep on a ledge at lower right, under a pale hazy sky.

The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Painting of a crumbling round tower on a plain with ruins, a seated figure, a goat, and mountains under a hazy sky.

Torre di Schiavi

Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, 1865

Painting of a dusty adobe town plaza with a whitewashed church, ox cart, carriages, and pedestrians under cloudy skies.

Old Mesilla Plaza

Léon Trousset, 1880

Studio interior with two children before a blank landscape canvas and a painter working at an easel on the right.

Interior with Portraits

Thomas Le Clear, 1865

Painted landscape with a stone castle on a hill, two deer, a kneeling archer, and a winding river under a pale sky.

Landscape with Castles and Deer

M. A. Hall, 1875

Painting of a lattice iron footbridge over a river with pedestrians, a seated figure and a boat in the foreground.

Pont des Arts

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910