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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

Two seated figures reach toward a bowl of food on a woven mat, one wearing a feathered headdress, against a pale background.

Theire Sitting at Meate

Spencer Nichols

Watercolor of a field of white and pink blossoms under a pale blue sky, with thin tree trunks and green shrubs.

Field of Blossoms

William Henry Holmes, 1927

Muted night landscape with a large spreading oak, a pale moon, and two cloaked figures walking on the plain.

Abraham's Oak

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1905

Painting of a marsh meadow at sunset with glowing red clouds, haystacks, a tree at left, and a small figure in the distance.

Jersey Meadows at Sunset

Martin Johnson Heade, 1860

Watercolor of a country road beside a red brick thatched cottage with green shutters and tall trees, signed Cass Gilbert 1931

A Road in Dorset

Cass Gilbert, 1931

Painting of a misty valley with a river, rocky cascades, tall trees, and rounded mountains under a warm sky.

Scottish Landscape

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1871

Painting of a seated elderly man in a dark coat in a flowery field, with a white house, billowing clouds and a child at right

Old Black Joe

Horace Pippin, 1940

Painting of Osage warriors dancing with spears and shields while a woman holds a child under a stormy sky.

Osage Scalp Dance

John Mix Stanley, 1845

Painting of a tall waterfall between forested cliffs, with a river and rocks in the foreground under a warm cloudy sky.

Waterfall on Mont-Morency

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1864

Pale witches tumble through a dark night sky, lit by a diagonal shaft of lightning against swirling clouds.

Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches

William Holbrook Beard, 1890

Horsemen in conical hats gallop across grassland chasing deer, with a mountain and sunset sky behind them.

Six Horsemen Chasing Deer

Raden Saleh, 1860

Watercolor of a green hill at sunset with small figures of children and adults and a pastel cloudy sky.

On the Sunset Hill, 1926

William Henry Holmes, 1926

Painting of autumn trees along a rushing river with rocky rapids and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

On the St. Annes, Canada East

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1860

Panoramic oil landscape of a valley with layered hills, rocky outcrop, storm clouds and a small village beneath trees.

Valley of Cuernavaca

Thomas Moran, 1903

Watercolor of a rocky mountain gorge with a stream, green hillsides, and two small figures on a boulder.

Mountain Gorge, Colorado

William Henry Holmes, 1923

Autumn woodland painting with a large sunlit tree in the foreground and two small figures among trees in the shade.

Connecticut Woods

Henry Ward Ranger, 1890

Painting of a shirtless miner in a hard hat operating a pneumatic drill against a rocky tunnel wall.

Gold Is Where You Find It

Tyrone Comfort, 1934

Painting of a calm curving bay with sandy shore, driftwood, distant hills and a village with a church steeple.

San Francisco Bay

Albert Bierstadt, 1871

Painting of a red-roofed farmhouse and church spire among trees, with cattle at a stream under a stormy sky.

The Valley Farm

John Constable, 1820

Painting of the snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano with smoke rising, above a green valley with a white hacienda in the lower right

Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church, 1855

Painting of water carriers with buckets walking along a Venetian quay beside a stone balustrade, with boys, a fishing net, an

Water Carriers, Venice

Frank Duveneck, 1884

Painting of a kneeling bearded man raising his arm toward a winged angel floating above him in clouds.

(Moses Viewing the Promised Land)

Robert Walter Weir, 1860

Painting of luminous angels above blue hills, with shepherds gathered by a small fire at the lower right at night.

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Painting of a ruined stone temple with carved reliefs, large trees, palms, figures on grass, and distant mountains under clou

Javanese Temple in Ruins

Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a rocky California coast with sunlit cliffs, a tide pool, and surf breaking around offshore rocks.

Evening Tide, California

William Ritschel, 1940

Painting of ruined Roman columns and a fresco wall before a cone-shaped volcano and a distant bay under a blue sky.

Vesuvius and Pompeii

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Painting of three nude women and a clothed woman under a tree in a pastoral field, with a man and dog in the distance at suns

Ekloga

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Painting of elegantly dressed couples dancing on a garden terrace beside an urn and statue, with seated onlookers.

Rustic Dance

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1700

Painting of a sunlit canyon with a waterfall and turquoise river winding between golden cliffs and evergreen trees.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1893