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Impressionist painting of a wide river with boats, a distant city shoreline, and rocky cliffs under a pale sky.

Hudson River

Van Dearing Perrine, 1915

Painting of sheep grazing under a blossoming tree beside a stream, with farm buildings and a fence on the right.

Pastoral Landscape

Carl Weber, 1850

Painting of a hillside with tall trees, autumn foliage, and a pale low sun over a greenish sky.

Hillside Landscape

Edward S. Siebert, 1900

Painting of thatched cottages, cows and willows beside a river, with a distant windmill under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Windmill

E. Landseer Harris, 1850

Watercolor of a forest council where a speaker addresses seated commissioners, with mounted riders and onlookers among tall t

Sa-tan-ti Addressing the Peace Commissioners at Council Grove, Medicine Lodge Creek

Hermann Stieffel, 1867

Painting of a yellow church with a red roof and cross beside a tall dark cedar tree and a yellow path.

Church with Cedar Tree on Left

Carl Newman, 1930

Three nude women in a landscape by a lake, two seated at left and one standing at right, with rolling hills behind.

Nudes in Landscape

Arnold Friedman, 1882

Oil landscape of a calm river through green marshland with trees and a cloudy sky, by Edward Gay, 1900.

The River, Sound Beach, Connecticut

Edward Gay, 1900

Painting of sheep grazing in a sunlit meadow under large shade trees, with a haystack in the distance.

Noon in the Orchard

Worthington Whittredge, 1900

Painting of a partly frozen stream winding through a snowy winter woodland with bare trees and evergreens.

Winter in the Catskill Mountains

John W. Bentley, 1934

Painting of a blue-branched tree beside a white house with a red roof and a colorful garden.

Blue Trees

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of a rocky forest gorge with a stream flowing over boulders, cliffs on the left, and a waterfall among trees.

The Flume, Opalescent River, Adirondacks

Alexander Helwig Wyant, 1870

Painting of children dancing around a maypole and playing in a city square with market stalls and tenement buildings.

The Field of Joy

Jerome Myers, 1920

Painting of a sunlit forest path lined with slender trees, rendered in loose, vivid green, yellow, and blue brushstrokes.

Landscape

Alfred H. Maurer, 1920

Painted landscape with bare trees, red and orange foliage, green fields, winding paths, and distant blue hills.

Landscape, Bridge, Huntingdon Valley

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Oil landscape of a sunlit pasture with grazing cattle and sheep, autumn trees, a dirt path, and distant hills under a glowing

Landscape

Charles Herbert Moore, 1850

Painting of a male wood duck with green head and white neck stripe floating among lily pads on dark water.

Male Wood Duck in a Forest Pool, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Painting of large yellow trees before colorful buildings with chimneys, red shrubs and blue sky, in bold outlined shapes.

Trees

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of sunlit red cliffs above a river under a stormy sky, with mounted riders on the bank in the foreground.

Cliffs of the Upper Colorado River, Wyoming Territory

Thomas Moran, 1880

Painting of a hazy valley seen between tall tree trunks, with a distant mountain and a split-rail fence in the foreground.

Temple Mountain

Chauncey F. Ryder, 1940

Painting of bare trees on a curving path above rolling hills in bold yellow, orange, green and blue patches.

Valley Falls I

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of a countryside with dramatic storm clouds over fields, a small white cottage, and a path in the foreground.

Small Landscape

John Constable, 1800

Oil painting of a horseback rider, dog and two women by a river with sailboats and a farmhouse under a hazy sky.

Dutch Landscape with Figures

Jacob van Strij, 1810

Painting of a purple-hued mountain range above a still alpine lake, with conifers and boulders in the foreground.

Fifth Lake

Edgar Payne, 1920

Painting of a dusk river scene with dark farm buildings, tall trees, and a glowing sunset reflected in still water.

Small Landscape

John Francis Murphy, 1880

Oil painting of a rolling green landscape with a winding path through trees, fields and hills under a cloudy sky.

Cornish Landscape

Charles A. Platt, 1910

Panoramic painting of a valley with rocky outcrops, distant hills, dark trees in the foreground, and a small village under cl

Valley of Cuernavaca

Thomas Moran, 1900

Painting of a colorful garden with a potted conical plant, a curved pond, orange and green trees, and a small house.

Landscape with Pond--Newman's Yard

Carl Newman, 1910

Sunset landscape with a thatched house, palm trees, travelers on a dirt road, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Javanese Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a red-lit sandstone butte beneath orange sunset clouds, with a river, green trees, and rocky desert ground.

Sunset Cloud, Green River, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1910

Painting of a red-roofed building framed by green trees and a foreground of red flowers under a hazy sky.

(Landscape with Red Roof Building)

Carl Newman, 1910

Oil painting of a waterfall spilling into a pool among rocky cliffs and trees, with three small figures on the shore.

Mountain Pool

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Painting of rolling green hills with red earth foreground, small figures on a path, and a heavy grey sky.

Mountain Forms #2

Victor Higgins, 1920

Painting of a coastal landscape with a dark-leaved tree, orange and red rocks, a blue sea and pink hills.

Landscape

Carl Newman, 1910

Painting of a valley with a rainbow over wooded hills, grazing cattle, two walking figures and a large tree in the foreground

Landscape with Rainbow

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Painting of a red stagecoach on a dirt road beside a white cottage with poplar trees, hills and clouds behind.

Landscape with Stagecoach

Henry Boese, 1850

Painting of several women in a colorful landscape by a blue river, one standing in a red skirt and others kneeling or reclini

(Women in Landscape with Blue Border)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of tall birch trees in a sunlit forest glen with a fallen log and mossy rocks on the floor.

Woodland Glen

Asher Brown Durand, 1850

Autumn lake scene with wooded hills, a steamboat and sailboat, and figures on a rocky ledge in the foreground.

Greenwood Lake

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1870

Painting of granite cliffs above pine trees reflected in a calm river in a valley.

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1870

Pale winter landscape of a snowy slope curving toward faint bare trees and fence posts under a misty lavender sky.

Round Hill Road

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Painting of a mountain above a calm lake at sunset, with a small rowboat and reddish trees reflected in the water.

Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860

Painting of three nude women by a river with tall trees, wooded hills, and a pale yellow sky.

Three Girls and River

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Painting of dark trees above a meadow with two grazing cows, under a cloudy sky with hills and water in the distance.

Untitled (landscape with trees and two cows in meadow)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a sunlit field with haystacks, trees and distant hills under a pale sky with pink clouds.

The Hill Field

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1910

Standing man in fringed tunic and feathered red headband holding a walking stick, painted against a pale landscape background

Ee-tów-o-kaum, Both Sides of the River, Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a wooded landscape with cows wading in a stream beside a wooden bridge, under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (forest scene with bridge, cows in stream in foreground)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Watercolor of thatched houses beside a winding path and fields under a muted, warm sky, with a bare tree at right.

Landscape with Houses

Winckworth Allan Gay

Painting of a blonde woman and a child seated beside a white doe in a shaded forest by a stream.

St. Genevieve of Brabant in the Forest

George Frederick Bensell, 1860

Loose brushwork painting of a rocky hillside beside calm water with distant hills under a warm, hazy sky.

Untitled (landscape with rocks)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of feathered dancers with spears before red tipis, a seated drummer at right and a white dog in the foreground.

Dance of the Chiefs, Mouth of the Teton River

George Catlin, 1830

Loose oil landscape of a golden field and dark trees under a pale sky, with a diagonal path crossing the foreground.

The Field

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Painting of cows grazing near a pond, with a farmhouse, a row of trees, and a figure on a path under cloudy sky.

Untitled (man with cows grazing near pond with house and trees in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a sunset landscape with pink clouds, dark hills, two cows on a ridge, and a lone tree at right.

Romantic Landscape

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Painting of domed earth lodges on a high riverbank, with people swimming, running and paddling a canoe on the river.

Hidatsa Village, Earth-covered Lodges, on the Knife River, 1810 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Dusky river landscape at sunset with a moored rowboat, a man holding a pole, and a silhouetted cottage across the water.

Untitled (landscape, boat moored near bank with man walking)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of snow-capped mountains, fishermen in a rowboat, a sailing ship, and a dark rocky arch under a glowing sunset sky.

Landscape

Thomas Chambers, 1820

Autumn landscape painting of tall trees with orange leaves, a small stream, a red figure on a path, and a blue sky.

Autumn Landscape

Du Bois Fenelon Hasbrouck, 1880

Oil painting of cows grazing in a meadow below wooded hills under a pale blue sky.

Untitled (landscape with cows grazing, hills)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Hazy seascape with a small sailboat on calm water near a rocky headland under a pale blue sky.

Pale Blue Landscape

Louis Eilshemius, 1940

Painting of mounted riders galloping across golden grassland ahead of a large black smoke cloud and fire along the horizon.

Prairie Meadows Burning

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a riverbank with a moored rowboat, a man carrying an oar, rocks, and autumn trees under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape, boat moored near stream, man walking in foreground)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Painting of a hazy river valley seen from a hillside with autumn trees, a winding river, and distant mountains under a pale s

Kanawha River Valley

Samuel Colman, 1880

Painting of a dusky lake with willow trees on the left, a wooden fence in the foreground, and hills in the distance.

Landscape with Lake

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1860