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Painting of mounted warriors in combat on a grassy plain under a dramatic stormy sky, with evergreen trees on the hills.

Battle Between Sioux and Sac and Fox

George Catlin, 1840

Seated woman in a red gown holding a violin and sheet music, against a dark red background.

Natalie with Violin

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Dim interior with a woman carrying a tray past seated diners and a kneeling servant, painted in loose brown tones.

Salome Receiving the Head of John the Baptist

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of seated men around a central fire in a lodge lit from a roof opening, with skulls and hanging shields.

Interior View of the Medicine Lodge, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Impressionist landscape of birch trees in autumn gold above a valley road and small houses, with hills and clouds behind.

Beeches

Ernest Lawson, 1930

Oil portrait of a woman with curled dark hair in a red dress and embroidered white shawl, against a cloudy landscape.

Jane Evans Tevis

Jacob Eichholtz, 1820

Oil portrait of a young boy with red face paint, a pink plume headdress, fur robe, and beaded necklaces against a warm backgr

Tcha-káuk-o-ko-máugh, Great Chief, a Boy

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of Mandan men seated in a council circle on grassland, with shields, feathered headdresses and rolling hills behind.

Foot War Party in Council, Mandan

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of an aged saint with a skull and quill pen, gazing up at a winged angel beside a crucifix and lion.

St. Jerome

William Merritt Chase, 1870

Oval bust-length portrait of a woman in a blue dress with white collar against a dark background.

Mrs. Gustavus Brown

Gustavus Hesselius, 1740

Painting of a dark-haired woman in a brown dress leaning over a basin in a dim interior.

A Toiler

John White Alexander, 1890

Loose painted portrait of a young woman with long auburn hair, green dress and beaded necklace, hand at chin.

Natalie with Necklace

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair and mustache in a dark jacket and white collar against a brown background.

Walter Shirlaw

Frank Duveneck, 1870

Mounted hunters with bows and lances chase a bison herd across green rolling grassland under a pale sky.

Buffalo Chase with Bows and Lances

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a sunset landscape with pink clouds, dark hills, two cows on a ridge, and a lone tree at right.

Romantic Landscape

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1870

Oil portrait of a man with a red roach hairstyle in a fur robe against a loosely painted cloudy sky.

Theodore Burr Catlin, in Indian Costume

George Catlin, 1840

Painting of a green grassy slope with distant bluffs on the left under a soft, cloudy, tan-toned sky.

Nishnabottana Bluffs, Upper Missouri

George Catlin, 1830

Loose, textured painting of a street lined with bare and autumn-colored trees, a pale house, and a dark stone wall.

View of Melrose Street from the Spiers' Porch

Walt Kuhn, 1910

Painting of the Grand Canyon with sunlit red cliffs, layered rock formations fading into blue distance, and pine trees on the

Grand Canyon

Carl Oscar Borg, 1910

Painting of a reclining nude and a standing figure on a shore at sunset, with cliffs, a small boat, and an orange sky.

A Greater Morning

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1900

Loose brushwork painting of a woodland clearing with white wild parsley flowers, violet blooms, and slender bare trees.

Wild Parsley

Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1900

Painting of a woman with curly hair holding a palette and brush, wearing a draped lilac robe against a soft background.

Self Portrait in Painting Robe

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Painting of domed earth lodges on a high riverbank, with people swimming, running and paddling a canoe on the river.

Hidatsa Village, Earth-covered Lodges, on the Knife River, 1810 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a crowded Choctaw ball game on grassland, with teepees, spectators, and rolling green hills under a blue sky.

Ball-play of the Choctaw--Ball Up

George Catlin, 1840

Portrait of a man in a red feathered headdress, blue beaded necklaces, and fur robe, holding a tomahawk, against a muted back

Wá-hón-ga-shee, No Fool, a Great Fop

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a dirt path past rocks and trees, with a lake and billowing clouds under a blue sky.

Landscape (trees and rocks by lake)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of snow-capped mountains, fishermen in a rowboat, a sailing ship, and a dark rocky arch under a glowing sunset sky.

Landscape

Thomas Chambers, 1820

Painting of painted men in feathered headdresses performing a energetic group dance with spears and bows on pale ground.

Discovery Dance, Sac and Fox

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of crashing white surf against dark rocks, with a distant shoreline and a heavy grey stormy sky above.

Newport

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Dark painted barn interior with a sunlit window, a wooden bucket, and rough timber beams and planks.

Interior

Eliphalet Fraser Andrews, 1910