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Zingare

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Stylized serpent creature with a curled horn and clawed feet, painted in turquoise, yellow, red, and black with geometric pat

Avanyu

Julian Martinez, 1920

Watercolor of a purple and a white crocus flower with green striped leaves on a cream background.

Untitled (Crocuses)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Pastel drawing of a woman with dark hair turned slightly to one side, against a soft blue background.

Untitled - Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Ink and watercolor design of stylized yellow and grey fish with patterned scales among black zigzag waves on green.

Fish Design for a Ceramic Plate

Danish Holcha Krake, 1930

Watercolor of white Dutchman's breeches flowers with fern-like leaves and two purple violets on a grey background.

Dutchman's Breeches (Bikukulla cucullaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Soft pastel portrait of a young woman with auburn hair, a forehead ornament, and a faint smile against a blurred green backgr

Fragment

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Watercolor of a man in fringed buckskin smoking a feathered pipe beside a tepee, with mountains and figures in the distance.

A Shoshonee Indian Smoking

Alfred Jacob Miller, 1860

Watercolor study of a pink flower with green buds and stem on a cream background.

(Untitled--Flower Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Pastel portrait of a woman with a bob haircut and red lips, wearing a wide-brimmed hat with yellow rosettes and a pale green

Spanish Fantasy II (Juliet Fremont)

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Circular watercolor of three draped women floating in a pale sky, one holding a small blue butterfly.

Dawn

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Water Lily in Sunlight

Water Lily in Sunlight

John La Farge, 1880

Pastel portrait of a young blonde girl with a large white bow in her hair against a green background.

Jane

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Colored study of a green and pink caterpillar on a twig beneath a red and lavender leaf.

"Mirror-Back" Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Gerald H. Thayer

Miniature portrait of a man with dark curly hair and white collar in a gilt floral brooch frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

John Alexander McDougall, 1830

Pastel portrait of a man in pince-nez spectacles and moustache, turned three-quarters, on a green ground.

James McNeill Whistler

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Watercolor of a wooden waterfront building with drying skins on its wall, canoes on the shore, and masts behind.

Drying Skins, Sitka

Theodore J. Richardson, 1910

Watercolor study of a green sphinx caterpillar camouflaged against leaves and a reddish branch.

Sphinx Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1920

Night scene of factory buildings with glowing windows, smokestacks, and a green-yellow smoky sky by Horatio C. Forjohn.

Industry at Night

Horatio C. Forjohn, 1933