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Interior painting of a seated woman in a richly decorated room with arched doorway, chandelier, rug, and framed landscape.

De Forest Interior

Walter Launt Palmer, 1878

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, with a domed building in the distant background.

Abraham Lincoln

George H. Story, 1916

Loose impressionist painting of horse-drawn cabs with red and yellow wheels on a street beside bare trees and buildings.

Cabs

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a tall church tower and spire in muted browns, with small figures and a carriage in a square under a pale s

Church of St. Germain des Pres

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose oil painting of a church tower with spire on a city street, with warm brick buildings and a lone pedestrian under a gre

Eglise de Ville

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Women and girls in shawls stand in a sunlit courtyard before an ornate arched doorway with tiled columns.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painted portrait of an elderly man in a wide red hat and red cape against a brown background.

Homme au Chapeau Rouge

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painted street scene of pedestrians and bare trees before a columned classical building under a hazy sky.

La Madeleine no. IV

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a masted sailing ship in a dim harbor at dusk, with hazy buildings along the far shore.

Porte de Cherbourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a city street with an archway, pale buildings, market stalls and small figures under a blue sky.

Porte St. Martin et Enterrement

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Dark painting of a Paris-style street with a carriage, pedestrians, and bare trees under an overcast sky.

Porte St. Martin no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Oil painting of a standing officer in green uniform and a seated woman in yellow headscarf sewing at a table in a room.

Officer with Peasant

Painting of a garden path with flowering plants, a wooden barrel, and a dark doorway beside a sunlit whitewashed wall.

A Garden Path

Robert Henry Logan, 1896

Mural study of helmeted soldiers with rifles and artillery guns amid fire, smoke and a crowd, in olive, blue and orange tones

War (mural study, War Department building, Washington, D.C.)

Kindred McLeary, 1941

Painting of a tall wooden windmill above a snowy red barn, with a small figure at the door under a dark blue sky.

The Windmill

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Painting of a seated man playing a teal accordion, with expressive dark brushwork and a mauve background.

Accordion Player

Donald Forbes, 1939

Painting of craggy yellow rock formations, a red-spired church, and barbed wire under a dark stormy sky.

S.F. Ruins, No. 1

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Oil portrait of an elderly Navajo man in a red headwrap and geometric woven blanket against a golden background.

Tlizzy-Thlanny

Carl Moon, 1940

Miniature portrait of a young boy in a navy jacket with a white ruffled collar against a pale blue sky.

Samuel Bowden

Samuel Bowden, 1950

Oval miniature portrait of a man with gray hair, dark coat and white cravat against a blue sky background.

Ira Allen

William Wood, 1940

Oil portrait of an older man with a mustache in a dark suit and white collar, one hand resting on a table, against a dark bac

William T. Evans

Alphonse Jongers, 1940

Painting of a large aloe plant with four tall red and yellow flower spikes against a dry landscape and blue mountains.

Aloes

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of mouflon and bobtailed sheep in a wire-fenced enclosure with a log shelter and eucalyptus trees behind.

Moufflon--Bobtailed Sheep

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of four peacocks, some perched on a railing and branches and two displaying fanned tails, beneath a drooping willow.

Trysting at Evening

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of white herons nesting in a bare tree with woven baskets, a ladder, a blue pond and rocks below.

Waterbirds Nesting

Josephine Joy, 1935

Painting of a suspension bridge with converging cables, curved roadways, and dark blue water under a cloudy sky.

Metropolitan Port

Joseph Stella, 1935

Painting of a woman nursing an infant before an industrial city with smokestacks, with two women beside her.

Industry SAAM-1964.1.92 1

Arthur Durston, 1934

Mural study of figures in a park beneath a large tree, with birds in flight, a dog, and a man in a brown coat in the foregrou

Scenes of New York--Central Park (mural study, Madison Square Postal Station, New York City)

Kindred McLeary, 1937

Painting of a crowded Lower East Side street with tenements, a fruit cart, laundry lines, and people including children and a

Scenes of New York--Lower East Side (mural study, Madison Square Postal Station, New York City)

Kindred McLeary, 1937

Watercolor of a clown in a polka-dot costume balanced on an elephant's head, arms raised, before a striped circus tent.

Clown Elephants

Fugi Nakamizo, 1940

Watercolor of a park path with walkers and a lamppost, framed by tall city towers and trees under a pale sky.

Central Park Plaza

Fugi Nakamizo, 1940

Watercolor of a cottage fireplace with glowing embers and two andirons, framed by a dark chimney breast and pale mantel.

Untitled (Cottage Fireplace)

Ida Josephine Burgess

Hand-colored botanical drawing of purple-leaved cineraria with magenta daisy-like flowers and green serrated leaves on beige

Purple-leaved Cineraria, A Native of the Canary Isles

Frances Jauncey Ketchum

Ink and pink-tinted sketch of a seated nude woman seen from behind, arms raised and hands behind her head.

Seated Nude

Ink drawing of a standing monk in a long hooded robe, head raised, hands clasped at the waist, on tan paper.

Untitled (Study of a Standing Monk)

Ida Josephine Burgess, 1880

Ink line drawing of a standing female nude with one arm raised, signed Nadelman in the lower right corner.

Standing Female Nude

Elie Nadelman, 1900

Study for Disciple Kneeling at the Tomb

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Angular charcoal drawing of two female figures in a fragmented geometric interior setting.

Two Figures

Pencil sketch of a small wooden cabin with a chimney beside leafy trees and a dirt road in the foreground.

Early Home

Henry Farrer, 1900

Graphite and red chalk drawing of a seated nude woman with closed eyes holding a mandolin on a rocky base.

Nude Figure with Mandolin

Laurent-Honoré Marqueste, 1920

Chalk drawing of a turbaned bearded man drinking from a cup, with grapevines and a poem text block above.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Soul of the Cup

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a street before a gateway with robed figures, a donkey, minarets and a palm tree behind the walls.

Entrance to Bazaar

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Black and white ink drawing of a tree framing a distant town with church spires and a white fountain in a garden.

Untitled - H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Drawing of a bearded man and two women under grapevines beside a carved wine jug tomb, with verse text in the center.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) Omar's Tomb

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a woman in evening dress beside a classical statue figure, on aged yellowed paper.

Lady in Evening Dress with Figure of Venus de Milo

William Page, 1870

Red chalk drawing of a woman and a man in a cap standing close together before a sketched tree.

Figure Study

Alfred Philippe Roll, 1910

Drawing of a nude woman seen from behind raising a wine cup, with a bending figure above and verses of the Rubáiyát beside he

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Love

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Grey ink and wash drawing of a standing nude woman seen from behind, hair in a bun, with a pale cloth at her side.

Standing Female Nude

Closed sketchbook with blue marbled cover and dark leather spine, photographed against a plain light background.

Sketchbook (Italian Travels)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Brown and white chalk drawing of a hooded old man and a nude winged woman beside a dead bird, with verse text in the center.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Sorry Scheme

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Brown ink wash drawing of a seated female nude with long dark hair, arm raised to her head, legs crossed.

Seated Female Nude

Pencil drawing of a stone house corner with stacked blocks, a cornice, carved brackets, and shuttered windows on tan paper.

Corner of House--Malta

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of the Excelsior Geyser formation with terraced rock ledges and distant ridges on cream paper.

Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1890

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man's severed head on a platter, held by a hand, with a faint halo behind it.

Head of John the Baptist

Léon-Daniel Saubès, 1910

Pencil sketch of stone temple columns and architectural blocks at Thebes, Egypt, with hatched shading.

Temple at Thebes, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of a flowering plant with a spike of pea-like blossoms and long narrow leaves on tan paper.

(Untitled--Flower Study)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Pencil sketch of tall eroded cliffs above trees and a rocky foreground, with handwritten inscription at lower left.

Tongue River Cliffs (In Camp)

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of a mud-brick house with a bare tree and figures above, and a cliff and riverside town below.

Gebel el Haridi

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Drawing of a young man pouring water from a jug beside a tree, with shadowed figures below and a verse inscription.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Mighty Mahmud

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Charcoal drawing of an angular, fragmented figure built from geometric planes and dark hatched shading.

Abstract

Pencil sketches of a carved column capital and a rooftop with a water tower, ladder and brick wall.

Alexandria (Rooftop/Cap of a Column)

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Drawing of a seated woman with a flower crown beside a river, with handwritten verse text on the left.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The River-Lip

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Brown paper sketchbook cover with large black script title 'Croquis' and a flourish, plus pencil marks and smudges.

sketchbook

Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1920

Crazy French Monk...Mt. Sinai

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg