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Seated woman in green dress and white lace bonnet beside a round table, with a river landscape painting behind her.

Mrs. Richard Alsop

Ralph Earl, 1790

Oil landscape of a white columned house on a hill surrounded by trees, with a fence and small figure in the foreground.

Mount Healthy, Ohio

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1840

Painting of a rainbow arching over a misty canyon with sunlit rock pinnacles, a distant waterfall, and a lone pine.

Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Thomas Moran, 1900

Hazy painting of Niagara Falls with mist, a rosy smoky sky, a distant smokestack, and small figures in the foreground.

Niagara

George Inness, 1880

Misty river valley with rocky cliff, leaning pine, distant mountains and small figures on a ledge at right.

Along the Hudson

John Frederick Kensett, 1850

Painting of a café interior with seated figures on a stone platform, a standing man in white robes, and a sunlit arched doorw

Cafe at Biskra, Algeria

Frederic Arthur Bridgman, 1880

Painting of a radiating sun over angular red mountains and a small fountain in a blue pool, in bold flat shapes.

Yliaster (Paracelsus)

Marsden Hartley, 1930

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 woman carrying grain across a dusky pasture with grazing cattle, trees, a haystack, and a setting sun.

Sundown

George Inness, 1880

Sunset painting of a moored sailboat on a tidal shore, a rowboat on calm water, and a child on the beach.

By the Seaside, New Jersey Shore

Francis A. Silva, 1880

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 a brown sea eagle on a rocky cliff overlooking choppy sea and a distant sailing ship under a blue sky.

Washington Sea Eagle

John James Audubon, 1830

Painting of a white country house on a grassy hill with a family walking on a path beneath tall trees.

Southeast View of "Sedgeley Park," the Country Seat of James Cowles Fisher, Esq.

Thomas Birch, 1810

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a black puff-sleeved dress resting on a red patterned cushion in an ornate interior.

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)

John Singer Sargent, 1890

Oval portrait of a woman in a gray dress, white lace cap and black bead necklace with a gold pendant, against dark background

Portrait of Mrs. Barbara Baker Murphy (Wife of Sea Captain)

Joshua Johnson, 1810

Portrait of a young woman in a beaded white dress and pink star-embroidered robe, standing before dome-shaped lodges.

Pshán-shaw, Sweet-scented Grass, Twelve-year-old Daughter of Bloody Hand

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a hawk-like bird swooping over a dead small bird on a tree stump under a dark, stormy sky.

Vulture and Its Prey

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1840

Painting of three nude women and a clothed woman in a pastoral field at dusk, with a shepherd and dog in the distance.

An Eclogue

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Portrait of a young man in a white frilled shirt and dark coat, seated before a dusk landscape with a glowing horizon.

Daniel La Motte

Thomas Sully, 1810

Woman seated from behind at a spinet in a room with floral patterned walls, a small mirror, and a vase of flowers.

The Spinet

Thomas Dewing, 1900

Half-length portrait of a man with red face paint, feathered headdress, beaded collar and fringed buckskin shirt against a mu

Sha-có-pay, The Six, Chief of the Plains Ojibwa

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a dense garden of pink and white roses and white carnations among dark green leaves.

Garden in May

Maria Oakey Dewing, 1890

Painting of a woman in white robes flanked by two children against dark foliage and a teal sky.

My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1890

Portrait of a man with half-red face paint, feather headdress, layered bead necklaces and fur garment against a pale sky.

Náh-se-ús-kuk, Whirling Thunder, Eldest Son of Black Hawk

George Catlin, 1830

Man in waistcoat smoking a pipe, legs up on a porch railing, with sunlit trees beyond.

Independence (Squire Jack Porter)

Frank Blackwell Mayer, 1850

Seated man with red face paint and red feathered headdress holding a pipe and arrow, in a sketched landscape.

No-wáy-ke-súg-gah, He Who Strikes Two at Once, a Brave

George Catlin, 1830

Painted wooden panel of the Virgin of Guadalupe with clasped hands, crown, red robe and radiating halo, 1830.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Pedro Antonio Fresquís, 1830

Muted harbor painting with sailing ships anchored beyond a long pier, figures on the quay, and brown hills under a pale sky.

Valparaiso Harbor

James McNeill Whistler, 1860

Painting of Sierra Nevada peaks, waterfalls and a lake with deer and ducks under sunlit storm clouds.

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt, 1860

Painting of a Mandan village of domed earth lodges with figures, horses, tall ceremonial poles, and green hills beyond.

Bird's-eye View of the Mandan Village, 1800 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830