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Oil portrait of an elderly man with grey curly hair wearing a wide red hat and red cape against a brown background.

Homme au Chapeau Rouge

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a Hopi woman carrying a child in a shawl, with a clay pot and distant mesas under a cloudy sky.

Hopi Mother and Child

Carl Moon, 1940

Painting of the Madonna holding the standing Christ Child, both with gold halos, framed by columns and gilded scrollwork.

Madonna and Child

Antonio da Correggio, 1800

Muted painting of a columned classical building behind bare trees, a street lamp, and small walking figures at dusk.

Chambre des Deputes no. 1

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a family picnic on a white cloth in a shaded forest clearing among tall trees, with a man in a straw hat.

Untitled--Picnic Scene

J. M. Tracy, 1870

Soft painted landscape of a pale moon rising over a tree line, with a green meadow and small pond in the foreground.

Midsummer Moonrise

Dwight W. Tryon, 1890

Painting of a dim city street with a horse-drawn carriage, pedestrians, and tall building facades under a grey sky.

Porte St. Martin no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Painting of a standing woman with beaded jewelry and a child holding a net bag, with domed huts and hills behind them.

Hottentot Woman and Children

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Painting of a man leading a dark calf down a sunlit street lined with whitewashed buildings and arched doorways.

Street Scene, Tangier (Man Leading Calf)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Seated man in feathered headdress paints horseback rider and deer on a hide, beside a decorated pot and paint palette.

Indian Artist

Carl Moon, 1940

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 misty sandstone spires rising above a rocky canyon stream, with a small figure and a soaring bird.

Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah

Thomas Moran, 1890

Oil portrait of a mustached man in a fur-collared coat and white bow tie against a red background.

Albert Clifford Barney

Ottilie Wilhelmina Roederstein, 1900

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

Landscape

Alfred H. Maurer, 1920

Naive painting of fishing schooners, rowboats with fishermen, whales and birds on a dark, turbulent sea under a blue sky.

The Marblehead Fishermen

John Orne Johnson Frost, 1920

Painting of women in traditional bonnets seated in a church, facing a preacher in a raised pulpit beside a window.

The Sermon

Gari Melchers, 1880

Painting of white flamingos with red wing patches blending into a purple and gray background, with cracked paint surface.

White Flamingoes, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

Painting of a water carrier with jars on his shoulder walking down a shadowed stone street beneath wooden balconies.

Algerian Water Carrier

William Sartain, 1910

Oil landscape of a large tree, two figures with a grey horse on a dirt path, a windmill and cloudy sky.

Spring Plowing near East Burgholt

John Constable, 1800

Oil painting of a standing man in white turban and dark cloak, with a domed building and hilltop town behind him.

Kabyle Algerian

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Painting of a woman's head turned sideways, with dark hair, a white collar and grey-blue jacket against green.

Head of a Woman in Jerusalem

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Oil portrait of a man in a feathered headdress, beaded necklaces and fur robe, set against a cloudy sky.

Petelesharro (Generous Chief)

Charles Bird King, 1820

Painting of a headless rider on a black horse chasing a fleeing rider on a white horse through a moonlit autumn forest.

The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane

John Quidor, 1850

Oil portrait of a curly-haired man in a dark coat and white cravat against a red drapery backdrop.

Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd of Philadelphia

Rembrandt Peale, 1800

Portrait of the Artist's Wife

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1890

Two stylized female figures with elongated necks stand side by side against a dark green background, one in red and one in gr

Duality

Alfred H. Maurer, 1920

Oil painting of a seated man in green robes with women and a winged cupid beside a red curtain under a cloudy sky.

Helen Brought to Paris

Benjamin West, 1770

Painting of tall pale poplar trees, a small figure in blue on a path, and a pale sandy plain under a turquoise sky.

Scene of Algiers

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Oil portrait of a woman with a red headband, turquoise beads and silver hoop earrings against a golden background.

Hostin Nez

Carl Moon, 1940

Misty painting of a columned classical building beyond a river, with bare trees and a stone embankment in muted browns.

Chambre des Deputes in a Mist

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920