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Oil painting of a horseback rider, dog and two women by a river with sailboats and a farmhouse under a hazy sky.

Dutch Landscape with Figures

Jacob van Strij, 1810

Painting of a purple-hued mountain range above a still alpine lake, with conifers and boulders in the foreground.

Fifth Lake

Edgar Payne, 1920

Painting of a dusk river scene with dark farm buildings, tall trees, and a glowing sunset reflected in still water.

Small Landscape

John Francis Murphy, 1880

Oil painting of a rolling green landscape with a winding path through trees, fields and hills under a cloudy sky.

Cornish Landscape

Charles A. Platt, 1910

Panoramic painting of a valley with rocky outcrops, distant hills, dark trees in the foreground, and a small village under cl

Valley of Cuernavaca

Thomas Moran, 1900

Painting of a colorful garden with a potted conical plant, a curved pond, orange and green trees, and a small house.

Landscape with Pond--Newman's Yard

Carl Newman, 1910

Sunset landscape with a thatched house, palm trees, travelers on a dirt road, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Javanese Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a red-lit sandstone butte beneath orange sunset clouds, with a river, green trees, and rocky desert ground.

Sunset Cloud, Green River, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1910

Painting of a red-roofed building framed by green trees and a foreground of red flowers under a hazy sky.

(Landscape with Red Roof Building)

Carl Newman, 1910

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 rolling green hills with red earth foreground, small figures on a path, and a heavy grey sky.

Mountain Forms #2

Victor Higgins, 1920

Painting of a coastal landscape with a dark-leaved tree, orange and red rocks, a blue sea and pink hills.

Landscape

Carl Newman, 1910

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 red stagecoach on a dirt road beside a white cottage with poplar trees, hills and clouds behind.

Landscape with Stagecoach

Henry Boese, 1850

Painting of several women in a colorful landscape by a blue river, one standing in a red skirt and others kneeling or reclini

(Women in Landscape with Blue Border)

Carl Newman, 1930

Painting of tall birch trees in a sunlit forest glen with a fallen log and mossy rocks on the floor.

Woodland Glen

Asher Brown Durand, 1850

Autumn lake scene with wooded hills, a steamboat and sailboat, and figures on a rocky ledge in the foreground.

Greenwood Lake

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1870

Painting of granite cliffs above pine trees reflected in a calm river in a valley.

Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley

Albert Bierstadt, 1870

Pale winter landscape of a snowy slope curving toward faint bare trees and fence posts under a misty lavender sky.

Round Hill Road

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Painting of a mountain above a calm lake at sunset, with a small rowboat and reddish trees reflected in the water.

Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860

Painting of three nude women by a river with tall trees, wooded hills, and a pale yellow sky.

Three Girls and River

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Painting of dark trees above a meadow with two grazing cows, under a cloudy sky with hills and water in the distance.

Untitled (landscape with trees and two cows in meadow)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of a sunlit field with haystacks, trees and distant hills under a pale sky with pink clouds.

The Hill Field

Arthur Wesley Dow, 1910

Standing man in fringed tunic and feathered red headband holding a walking stick, painted against a pale landscape background

Ee-tów-o-kaum, Both Sides of the River, Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a wooded landscape with cows wading in a stream beside a wooden bridge, under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (forest scene with bridge, cows in stream in foreground)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Watercolor of thatched houses beside a winding path and fields under a muted, warm sky, with a bare tree at right.

Landscape with Houses

Winckworth Allan Gay

Painting of a blonde woman and a child seated beside a white doe in a shaded forest by a stream.

St. Genevieve of Brabant in the Forest

George Frederick Bensell, 1860

Loose brushwork painting of a rocky hillside beside calm water with distant hills under a warm, hazy sky.

Untitled (landscape with rocks)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of feathered dancers with spears before red tipis, a seated drummer at right and a white dog in the foreground.

Dance of the Chiefs, Mouth of the Teton River

George Catlin, 1830

Loose oil landscape of a golden field and dark trees under a pale sky, with a diagonal path crossing the foreground.

The Field

Alice Pike Barney, 1890