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Painting of a young woman in a bonnet and shawl with a greyhound, standing in a meadow of white wildflowers.

Young Girl and Dog

Percy Moran, 1890

Painting of a sunlit courtyard with a horseback rider, a turbaned man reading a paper, merchants in a carved shop window, and

Hindu Merchants

Edwin Lord Weeks, 1880

Half-length portrait of a man in a black coat and white cravat holding a rolled paper against a dark background.

Gentleman of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1820

Half-length portrait of a woman in a lace cap, dark green dress, and lace collar, hands folded in her lap.

Lady of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1820

Painting of a young woman in a pink skirt beside a brown and white cow among flowering shrubs in sunlight.

La Vachère

Theodore Robinson, 1880

Painting of a single white magnolia blossom with green leaves against a dark background.

Magnolia

Charles Walter Stetson, 1890

Painting of two blue jays with spread wings over bright snow, with bare branches in front and a leafless wooded edge behind.

Blue Jays in Winter, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1900

The Victorian Chair

Childe Hassam, 1900

Painting of a blue vase of white calla lilies, anemones and delphiniums on a sill, with a hillside village view beyond.

Bouquet in Window

Paul Rohland, 1933

Painting of a young woman in a dark cloak walking against strong wind on a dirt road under a stormy sky.

The Girl I Left Behind Me

Eastman Johnson, 1861

Oil painting of a Confederate soldier raising a white flag in a forest clearing, with a seated woman and a standing man besid

Surrender of a Confederate Soldier

Julian Scott, 1861

Painting of mouflon sheep in a wire-fenced pen beside a log shelter, with eucalyptus trees overhead.

Moufflon--Bobtailed Sheep

Josephine Joy, 1933

Abstract painting in black and olive with glowing yellow arcs, circles, and a bright orb near the center.

Idle Governor

Horatio C. Forjohn, 1933

Standing officer in dark uniform beside a large cannon and draped American flag, painted in 1861.

The First Gun at Fort Sumter (Major Robert Anderson)

Alban Jasper Conant, 1861

Painting of a harbor with a suspension bridge, converging cables, dark blue water and a stormy sky in angular modernist style

Metropolitan Port

Joseph Stella, 1933

Painting of peacocks on a railing, in a tree, and displaying on a lawn beneath a weeping willow with a green bench.

Trysting at Evening

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of a green aloe rosette with four tall orange and yellow flower spikes against a windswept desert landscape and blue

Aloes

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of white herons nesting in a bare tree with wooden platforms beside a small pool and rocky shore.

Waterbirds Nesting

Josephine Joy, 1933

Painting of a brown mare and a golden foal nuzzling on a rose-colored hillside with blue hills and clouds behind.

Filly and Colt

Frank Stamato, 1933

Painting of a snowy field with four leafy trees, small farm buildings, a figure pulling a sled, and evergreens in the foregro

May Snow

Torvald Arnst Hoyer, 1933

Painting of a mother holding an infant before a industrial city with smokestacks, with two women at lower right.

Industry

Arthur Durston, 1933

Oil portrait of a woman with dark curled hair, white floral lace collar, black bow and red shawl against a dark background.

Portrait of a Woman

George Catlin, 1820

Painting of three figures in a wood-paneled room: a striped-costumed man leaning toward a kneeling man in yellow, a woman in

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Dr. Caius, Simple and Dame Quickly

Robert Walter Weir, 1830

Oil portrait of a young girl with long hair in a white dress, holding a small white cross against her chest.

Portrait of Hiram Powers' Daughter

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Painting of a young girl with auburn hair and a blue ribbon seated on a bench beside a blue cushion and a vase of pink flower

May Flowers

Louise Cox, 1910

Oil portrait of a young woman with braided hair holding a red parrot beside a birdcage, against a brown background.

Miss Satterlee

Charles Bird King, 1830

Oil portrait of a young woman with auburn hair, tilted head, white lace blouse and green bodice against a dark background.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Edward Harrison May, 1860

Oil portrait of a young blond boy with bangs and a white collar against a dark background.

Charles Downing Lay, Portrait of the Artist's Son

Oliver Ingraham Lay, 1880

Seated woman in a white dress holding a small brown dog in a dim interior with a chair, flowers and lantern.

Portrait of a Lady with a Dog (Anna Baker Weir)

J. Alden Weir, 1890

Oval portrait of a young girl with dark hair in a white off-shoulder dress with blue ribbon bows against a dark background.

Mary Louisa Adams

Asher Brown Durand, 1830