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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls

George Inness, 1880

Dark, textured painting of a forest with a glowing yellow-green opening in the canopy above a reflective pool.

Moonrise

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1910

Painting of dancers in feathered headdresses and bear costumes performing a stooped group dance on a pale ground.

Bear Dance, Preparing for a Bear Hunt

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of white and yellow roses with dark green leaves and buds against a muted olive background.

Roses--Fancy Still Life, Still Life with Roses

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1840

Painting of a rustic wooden room with a green tiled stove, bench, table, and a view through a doorway to a window.

Interior of a House

Eliphalet Fraser Andrews, 1910

Painting of a red-painted rider in feathered headdress on a black horse with handprints, against a pale cloudy sky.

Kee-o-kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe, on Horseback

George Catlin, 1830

Seated men in feathered headdresses gather around a campfire beside trees, with open water and pale sky behind them.

Sioux Indian Council, Chiefs in Profound Deliberation

George Catlin, 1830

Two young women in fringed dresses stand before a painted tipi with children and dogs, on an open plain.

Two Comanche Girls

George Catlin, 1830

Oil painting of a farmhouse and barn beside a curving dirt road, with rolling wooded hills under a pale sky.

Landscape

Edward Bruce, 1930

Painting of a crowded 19th-century courtroom with lawyers, seated men, spectators on benches and a small dog on the floor.

Missouri Courtroom

William Josiah Brickey, 1850

Painting of a rocky shoreline with a wooded bluff, a red-roofed house, and sailboats on water under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (shoreline with sailboats and roof)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of sheep grazing in a wooded clearing with boulders, under a sky with sunlight breaking through clouds over hills.

Landscape with Sheep

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1820

Hazy seascape of sailing boats and a rowboat with figures on calm water under a glowing sun.

Marine Study

Franklin D. Briscoe, 1900

Painting of a river with a stone bridge and a hilltop medieval palace with towers, reflected in golden light.

The Palace of the Popes and Pont d'Avignon

Carroll Beckwith, 1910

Loose oil landscape of two grazing cows in a grassy field beneath dark trees and a pale embankment, with distant hills.

Untitled (landscape with two cows)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of wild horses galloping across green grassland toward a distant hill under a pale, cloudy sky.

Wild Horses at Play

George Catlin, 1830

Loose painted sketch of a shaded path under a leafy tree, sloping down to a stream and sunlit meadow with pink flowers.

Original sketch of "The Wanderlusters' Rest"

William Henry Holmes, 1910

Painting of a coastal landscape with large clouds, grassy dunes, grazing cattle, two walking figures, and a distant spire.

From Amagansett to East Hampton

George H. Bogert, 1920

Painting of mounted riders with lances and shields galloping across a grassy plain under a cloudy sky.

Comanche Feats of Horsemanship

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of cows grazing under trees beside a calm river, with distant hills and a cloudy sky in warm earth tones.

Untitled (landscape with cows grazing near river)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a dark winter forest with bare trunks and branches, snow on the ground, and a pale glowing sky.

Brooding Silence

John F. Carlson, 1940

Painting of green rolling hills, red eroded bluffs, and a winding river under a pale sky with clouds.

Iron Bluff, 1200 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of rounded yellow clay bluffs beside a winding river and green plain under a pale sky with streaked clouds.

Clay Bluffs, Twenty Miles above the Mandans

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of cattle grazing in a flowery meadow beside large trees under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape with cattle grazing)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of mounted riders racing across a grassy plain while feathered spectators watch near a flagpole under a cloudy sky.

Horseracing on a Course Behind the Mandan Village

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of rolling hills at sunset with a tipi and campfire smoke among trees at lower right.

Indians Encamping at Sunset, Upper Missouri

George Catlin, 1830

Dark silhouetted tree under a glowing yellow and green sunset sky, with a dirt road and two small figures below.

River Landscape at Sunset

David Johnson, 1890

South Side of Buffalo Island, Showing Buffalo Berries in the Foreground

South Side of Buffalo Island, Showing Buffalo Berries in the Foreground

George Catlin, 1830

View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum

View of the Temple of Peace in the Roman Forum

George Loring Brown, 1860

Oil landscape of a fisherman by a still pool, a waterfall, trees, and distant snowy mountains under a dramatic sky.

Landscape with Stream and Mountains

Thomas Doughty, 1830