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Painting of Niagara's Horseshoe Fall with a rainbow, small figures on a rocky ledge, and dark storm clouds overhead.

The Great Horseshoe Fall, Niagara

Alvan Fisher, 1820

Painting of a woman in a white dress with a white parasol, carrying foliage among orange lilies in a garden.

The White Parasol

Robert Reid, 1900

Sunlit ochre villa with a square tower, red roofs, palm tree and trees in front, under a pale blue sky.

Villa Malta, Rome

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1870

Still life of split watermelon, cantaloupe, and morning glory vines with a dark glass on a table.

Melons and Morning Glories

Raphaelle Peale, 1810

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

Woman in a veil holds an oil lamp while seated on a bed in a dark, moonlit interior.

Mary

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

Loose oil painting of turquoise sea framed by dark cliffs and a grassy headland under a pale, cloudy sky.

Cornish Headlands

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Portrait of a man with long dark hair, red face paint, feathered ornament, beaded necklace and fringed decorated shirt agains

H'co-a-h'co-a-h'cotes-min, No Horns on His Head, a Brave

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of mounted hunters chasing a buffalo herd across green hills, with fallen buffalo and rocky bluffs in the distance.

Buffalo Chase, Mouth of the Yellowstone

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of the snowy Cotopaxi volcano emitting smoke above a plain, with a white hacienda and figures in the foreground.

Cotopaxi

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Oil painting of a sailing ship and schooners near icebergs in calm water under a warm, cloudy sky.

Looking out of Battle Harbor

William Bradford, 1870

Muted blue-gray night landscape with a large gnarled oak, a pale full moon, and two cloaked figures walking across a plain.

Abraham's Oak

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1900

Painting of a feathered Indigenous man beside a man in a top hat and dark coat holding a parasol and fan.

Wi-jún-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning From Washington

George Catlin, 1830

Portrait of a young girl in a white cap, brown bodice with red lacing, and red bow against a dark background.

Young Moravian Girl

John Valentine Haidt, 1750

Seated woman in white bonnet and patterned gold gown beside a window with river landscape, painted 1790.

Mrs. Joseph Wright

Ralph Earl, 1790

Group portrait of a family in a garden with trees, a stone wall, and a distant river landscape with a windmill.

The Wiley Family

William Williams, 1770

Painting of a seated nude woman with long auburn hair beneath flowering branches, with a pale drape over her lap.

The Golden Age

John La Farge, 1870

Oil painting of a waterfall spilling into a pool among rocky cliffs and trees, with three small figures on the shore.

Mountain Pool

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Painting of a steep rocky hillside with a mine road, a small white building, and a rowboat on a calm green lake.

The Iron Mine, Port Henry, New York

Homer Dodge Martin, 1860

Painting of a valley with a rainbow over wooded hills, grazing cattle, two walking figures and a large tree in the foreground

Landscape with Rainbow

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Painting of a ruined brick tower on a plain with broken stones, a goat, a seated figure, and distant mountains at dusk.

Torre di Schiavi

Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, 1860

Loose painting of a calm pond with green trees on the left, a distant town on the far shore, and a pale sky.

Dublin Pond, New Hampshire

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Oval wreath of mixed flowers, daisies and berries painted against a pale grey background with Greek inscription below.

Wreath of Flowers

John La Farge, 1860

Oil portrait of a man in a cream suit seated in a chair, holding a sleeping orange cat, beside a window.

Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker)

Cecilia Beaux, 1890

Portrait of a man with feathered headdress, red face paint, and beaded shirt holding a decorated pipe, against a pale sky.

Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe

George Catlin, 1830

Four men in red feathered headdresses and face paint, wearing beaded necklaces and fur robes, painted against a dark backgrou

Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees

Charles Bird King, 1820

Night scene of a pale horse drinking at a pool while mounted riders, one with a raised arm, stand in shadow behind it.

Fired On

Frederic Remington, 1900

Two women seated at a long table in a pale room, one reading an open book, the other holding a flower sprig, with a vase betw

A Reading

Thomas Dewing, 1890

Portrait of a Native American man with a red feather headdress, silver earrings, fur robe and claw necklace.

Wah-ro-née-sah, The Surrounder, Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, 1830

Trompe l'oeil painting of a torn landscape with a cottage and waterfall, bound with string and pasted with express shipping l

Torn in Transit

John Haberle, 1890