New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Smithsonian American Art Museum

93 works

Painting of a sunlit city street with a church facade, a horse-drawn carriage, and pedestrians under a pale sky.

Saint Roche Church

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Loose painting of a reclining nude woman on white drapery beside a seated figure, with red curtains and scattered gold coins.

Payment of Zeus

Carl Marr, 1930

Loose painting of a helmeted woman with spear standing in a chariot pulled by dark horses under a pale, cloudy sky.

Minerva in a Chariot

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Panel painting of the Virgin and Child receiving a gilded casket from a kneeling king, with soldiers and a landscape behind.

Adoration of the Kings

Flemish Bernard van Orley, 1400

Folk painting of Saint Anthony of Padua in blue habit holding the Christ Child and a white lily before red curtains.

Saint Anthony of Padua

Eighteenth-Century Novice, 1770

Painting of a young winged angel with white wings and a white gown against a pale blue background, gazing forward.

Angel

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1880

Painted wooden panel of St. Anthony in brown habit holding the Christ Child, both with halos, on a worn ochre ground.

St. Anthony with the Christ Child

Arroyo Hondo Painter, 1820

Nude male figure with arms raised high against a dark background, lit dramatically, in a crucifixion-like pose.

Crucifixion

William Merritt Chase, 1870

Endymion

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Painting of the Nativity with the infant Christ in a manger, Mary and Joseph, shepherd, ox, donkey, and an arched stone inter

The Nativity

Juan González, 1660

Painting of the Virgin Mary steadying the infant Christ as he reaches toward a white lamb against a dark background.

Madonna and Child

Bernardino Luini, 1530

Painting of two nude women by a wooded river, one standing by a tree and one reclining on the bank, in loose blue and yellow

Standing and Reclining Nymphs

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Loose oil study of a haloed, bearded Christ figure with open arms in a red robe, set before a green landscape and cloudy sky.

Study for "Christ"

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Painting of a winged angel in a flowing white robe, gazing upward against a soft blue and cream background.

The Angel

William Baxter Closson, 1910

Painting of two nude nymphs resting by a pond in a dark green wooded landscape with a tan cliff and teal sky.

Nymphs Sleeping

Louis Eilshemius, 1920

Painting of a reclining nude woman on draped cloth in a dark, shadowed forest clearing with rocks and trees.

Ariadne

Wyatt Eaton, 1880

Painting of rows of tepees on green plains beside a wide river, with mounted riders on rolling hills under a pale sky.

Fort Pierre, Mouth of the Teton River, 1200 Miles above Saint Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of two bearded men in robes seated in a dim interior, one gesturing, beside a window with a green landscape.

Visit of Nicodemus to Christ

John La Farge, 1880

Blue-toned painting of a kneeling woman by water at moonlight, with a standing figure and a distant sailboat.

Moses in the Bullrushes

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1920

Painting of a plains ceremony with a figure beside a pole bearing a bison skull, drummers, and a watching crowd.

Self-torture in a Sioux Religious Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Expressionist painting of a haloed crucified Christ above a landscape, with nude mourners grieving in the foreground and a sh

(Crucifixion)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of Christ with a halo, long brown hair and beard, red robe, and raised hand against a dark background.

Head of Christ

Palma Vecchio, 1590

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, two angels, a dove above, and two kneeling mourners before rocky hills.

Crucifixion

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1920

Dark painting of a glowing amber dusk sky over hills, with small reddish female figures in a shadowed landscape.

Dance of the Wood Nymphs

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1840

Painting of a sunlit courtyard with a horseback rider, a turbaned man reading a paper, merchants in a carved shop window, and

Hindu Merchants

Edwin Lord Weeks, 1880

Painting of the Madonna in a red robe and dark veil holding a nude standing child on a draped ledge.

Madonna and Child

Flemish Peter Paul Rubens, 1610

Painting of a winged white horse rising through golden clouds, watched by a kneeling figure and a draped woman on dark ground

Pegasus Departing

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1900

Watercolor of three white wood-nymph flowers on pink stems above green leaves and moss on pale paper.

Wood-Nymph (Moneses uniflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Painting of a tall church tower in warm golden light, with small figures in a city square below.

Eglise Saint Merry

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Loose painting of a woman in a pale robe beside pale animals in a warm, ochre-lit interior room.

Study for the Annunciation

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890