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Loose painting of fishing boats with masts moored by a calm harbor under a pale, luminous sky.

Honfleur Fishing Boats no. 2

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Small oil sketch of two hooded monks walking a dirt road past dark trees under a cloudy sky, with hills beyond.

Monks on the Appian Way

Elihu Vedder, 1860

Painting of an autumn landscape with trees, a brown field, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Autumn at Arkville

Alexander Helwig Wyant, 1830

Painting of two women in black shawls talking before an adobe wall, with a donkey and village on a hillside behind.

The Gossip

William Penhallow Henderson, 1920

Painting of Notre Dame cathedral's twin towers and spire in hazy tan tones, with a bare tree, street lamp, and three figures

Notre Dame no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Oil painting of fishing boats with sails tacking through rough waves toward a harbor town under stormy clouds.

Fishing Boats Beating up to Windward

Edward Moran, 1850

Dark painting of a glowing amber dusk sky over hills, with small reddish female figures in a shadowed landscape.

Dance of the Wood Nymphs

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1840

Painting of a reclining nude woman with dark hair, rendered in loose brushwork against bright green, blue, and yellow fields.

Nude

Carl Newman, 1910

Painting of three nude women by a pond with water lilies, a dark treeline, and a yellow sunset sky.

Water Lilies

Walter Shirlaw, 1830

Painting of a nude woman reclining on a couch in a red-draped Orientalist interior, with a seated turbaned man and a servant.

Oriental Princess after the Bath

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Impressionist painting of women and a child in white dresses on a garden terrace beside blooming flower beds and a cottage.

On the Terrace

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Painting of a colorful stylized garden with a curving path, bare trees, green lawn, and fields in red and yellow.

Décor Plat

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Small oil sketch of a trading post and wharf buildings on pilings over water, with two rowboats, in evening light.

Trading Post and Wharf Buildings, Sitka, Evening

Theodore J. Richardson, 1910

Painting of two women carrying water buckets on a Venetian quay, with children, a balustrade, and a distant domed church.

Water Carriers, Venice

Frank Duveneck, 1880

Painting of a windmill and plowing farmer under a dramatic stormy sky with a large tree at left.

Windmill

Painting of a pilgrim in red walking toward two glowing angels beneath a radiant cross in a stormy sky over rocky terrain.

The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey (study for series, The Cross and the World)

Thomas Cole, 1840

Dark, fiery landscape with a lone pilgrim among fallen stone blocks, facing a distant horizon and snow-capped mountain.

The Pilgrim of the World at the End of His Journey (study for the series, The Cross and the World)

Thomas Cole, 1840

Painting of a storm-tossed ship with torn sails on dark waves, under a glowing sun behind swirling clouds.

Flying Dutchman

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1880

Oil portrait of a young woman in a gold dress at a piano, with a boy in red velvet and a younger child holding a red book.

The Parmly Sisters

Thomas P. Rossiter, 1850

Painting of a winged white horse rising through golden clouds, watched by a kneeling figure and a draped woman on dark ground

Pegasus Departing

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1900

Painting of mountain laurel blossoms spilling from a blue vase onto a table against a muted olive background.

Mountain Laurel

Charles Ethan Porter, 1880

Painting of a dirt road through coastal grass leading to a small house on dunes, with the sea and sails beyond.

Seconnet Point, Rhode Island

Worthington Whittredge, 1880

Painting of a river curving past grassy bluffs, with a distant village of lodges and small figures on the cliff edge.

Distant View of the Mandan Village

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of jagged Sierra mountain peaks lit orange by sunrise, with shadowed forest and valley below.

Sunrise in the Sierras

Albert Bierstadt, 1870

Two women recline on a patterned divan beside a brass tray of roses and almonds, in an ornate interior.

Idle Hours

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1890

Painting of a sunny farmyard with thatched buildings, haystacks, a white cottage, and chickens foraging in a grassy field.

Brittany Farm

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1880

Painting of a woman in a purple dress and black hat reclining on a red sofa against a patterned wall.

The Purple Dress

William Glackens, 1910

Painting of a sunlit rocky headland with sailing boats and rowboats in calm water under a clearing storm sky.

Clearing Storm at Gibraltar

Samuel Colman, 1850

Loose painting of horses and a man in a dark stable, with light from a window and an open doorway.

Stable at Cuenca

John Singer Sargent, 1900

Painting of a green river valley with rows of tepees, a fort beside the river, figures on a hill, and streaked clouds above.

Fort Union, Mouth of the Yellowstone River, 2000 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830