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Sketch layout of nine reclining Muse figures and a central Hermes and Apollo scene for a library decoration.

Sketches for the Decoration of a Private Library "A"

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Loose painting of city rooftops, chimneys and a green overgrown yard seen from above, in muted reds, greys and greens.

Rooftops

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Three standing Sioux men in fringed hide robes and feathers, painted in watercolor within an oval frame against a pale sky.

Little Bear, Steep Wind, The Dog; Three Distinguished Warriors of the Sioux Tribe

George Catlin, 1860

Painting of a white-sailed ship and a small sloop in rough green seas under clouds, with a distant coastline.

Whaler off the Vineyard--Outward Bound

William Bradford, 1850

Painting of a winding river past wooded islands and green rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

View from Floyd's Grave, 1300 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Oil still life of two haddock fish on a table, one resting on a blue-rimmed plate against a dark background.

Haddock

Emil Carlsen, 1880

Loose painted autumn landscape with golden and orange trees, a stream, a small waterfall and dark rocks.

Autumn Landscape

Louis Eilshemius, 1910

Painting of a pale lake with wooded islands, reeds, white swans, and distant blue hills under a soft cloudy sky.

Lac du Cygne (Swan Lake), Near the Coteau des Prairies

George Catlin, 1830

Dark seascape of a steamboat with smoke and a red flag in choppy water under a stormy sky.

Squall, Brenton Light (boat in storm, lighthouse in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a mounted warrior with a lance on a white horse beside a painted hide tepee on grassland.

Comanche Lodge of Buffalo Skins

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a green hillside with dark pine trees on the left, a stone wall curving across the slope, and a pale blue sky.

Landscape, Cornish, N.H.

John White Alexander, 1890

Painting of a riverbank with trees, a cow drinking at the water and two cows in the distance under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape, riverbank, three cows)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a hilly landscape with dark evergreen trees, scattered rocks in a grassy field, and a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape, fields with rocks and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

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

Mandan men in feathered headdresses practice archery on a grassy plain with rolling hills behind them.

Archery of the Mandan

George Catlin, 1830

Small oil painting of a river at sunset with a red sun, dark trees, rocks, and two figures by a campfire.

Indians at Campfire--Moon Rising

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1820

Hazy landscape painting of a still pond surrounded by dark trees, with misty mountains and a warm, muted sky above.

Kayser's Pond, Maine

John Bunyan Bristol, 1820

Dark landscape painting of cows resting in a field beneath a stormy sky, with trees on the left and right.

Untitled (landscape with cows and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Oil painting of a farmhouse with cattle and a rider on a rural road beneath tall trees and cumulus clouds.

Barnyard Scene

Robert Ladbrooke, 1770

Painting of tipis on green prairie with smoke rising, buffalo, horse riders, drying meat racks, and a hide on a frame.

Sioux Encamped on the Upper Missouri, Dressing Buffalo Meat and Robes

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of Mandan men in buffalo costumes dancing in a village plaza before domed lodges and a crowd of onlookers.

Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Oil painting of a cottage among trees beside a lake at sunset, with a distant white sailboat on the water.

Untitled (house in woods near lake)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Dark oil landscape of a stormy sky with pale light breaking through clouds above a path and a cluster of trees.

The Storm

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of a turbaned man in red and blue robes reclining on a green divan, smoking a long pipe, before red drapery.

The Smoker

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, 1790

Painting of a large dark grizzly bear's head and claws looming over a tiny mouse on the ground under a pale sky.

Portraits of a Grizzly Bear and Mouse, Life Size

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of a bison herd on a green prairie with two hunters in wolf-skin disguises crawling in the foreground under a cloudy

Buffalo Hunt under the Wolf-skin Mask

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a sunlit rocky mountain cliff above a grassy slope with yellow wildflowers and a winding path under blue sky.

Ta-wa-que-nah, or the Rocky Mountain, Near the Comanche Village

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a large tree beside a lake at dusk, with seated figures on the shore and a rowboat on the water.

Landscape with Family by Lake

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Watercolor of a wooded hillside, a wooden bridge over water, thatched buildings and small figures along the bank.

Landscape with Bridge

Winckworth Allan Gay

Painting of birch bark canoes racing on a river past a wooded shore, with paddlers and crowded spectator canoes.

Canoe Race Near Sault Ste. Marie

George Catlin, 1830