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Watercolor of a bunchberry plant with red berry clusters, green whorled leaves, and thin trailing roots on pale paper.

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Oil portrait of an older woman in a white bonnet and spectacles holding an open book against a red-brown background.

Mrs. Benajah Johnson

n.d A. Patrick, 1830

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with curled grey hair, white headband, white gown and blue bodice, in a gold frame.

Portrait of a Lady from S. Carolina Huguenot Family

Lawrence Sully, 1790

Watercolor of two Alberta paintbrush stems with red flower bracts and green leaves on a pale background.

Alberta Paintbrush (Catilleja miniata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two blue lupine flower spikes with green palmate leaves on a cream background.

Sun Dial Lupine (Lupinus perennis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a ladder gentian plant with violet flowers, buds, green leaves and roots on a pale background.

Ladder Gentian (Gentiana acuta)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of pink and lavender five-petaled wildflowers with buds and green leaves, with grass stalks behind.

Gentianacease sabbalia angularis

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1880

Portrait of Jahangir

Miniature portrait of a young boy with short brown hair, wearing a dark green jacket and white ruffled collar, holding a card

Joven de la familia Canals

Canals, 1800

Night scene of a seated figure in a feathered headdress beside a campfire, under a glowing moon, with a distant tent.

The Signal Fire

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1880

Watercolor of a Grouse Whortleberry sprig with slender stems, green leaves and red berries on cream paper.

Grouse Whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor portrait of a veiled woman with only her eyes visible, wearing a white veil and blue garment with dark trim.

Turkish Lady of Brusa

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Watercolor of a cluster of orange California poppies with buds, seed pods, and feathery green leaves on white paper.

California Poppy (Eschscholtzia californica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Oval miniature portrait of a woman with powdered curled hair, pink dress and blue ribbon, in a gilt and black frame.

Mrs. Elizabeth Pollock Hartigan

Walter Robertson, 1790

Oval miniature portrait of a man in a red coat and white cravat against a green background, in a gilt frame.

James Monroe

Joseph Castel, 1810

Watercolor of fritillary plant with drooping mauve and cream bell flowers and long green leaves on pale paper.

Fritillary (Fritillaria biflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of globe anemone with white and pink-tinged flowers, buds, a yellow seed head and divided green leaves on pale pap

Globe Anemone (Anemone globosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

John Beale Bordley

Joseph Robinson, 1820

Miniature portrait of a young man with dark hair in a blue coat and white cravat, in a gold oval frame.

Portrait of a Gentleman

P. E. Stroëhling, 1800

Watercolor of an Epidendrum cochleatum orchid with dark purple and green flowers on a slender stem above green leaves.

Orchid (Epidendrum cochleatum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a golden fairy lantern stem with nodding yellow flowers, long green leaves, and a green seed pod on white paper

Golden Fairy Lantern (Calochortus amabilis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Oil painting of three sheep in a grassy landscape with trees, a shrub, distant hills, and a cloudy sky at dusk.

Sheep

Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck, 1820

Mr. Veacock

Thomas Birch, 1800

Painted self-portrait of a man with a mustache, face half lit against a dark background, wearing a blue collar and jacket.

Self-Portrait

James Henry Moser, 1880

Watercolor of five yellow poppy-like flowers on slender stems above grey-green foliage, with one curled bud.

Desert Poppy (Eschscholtzia glyptosperma)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Painting of a seated nude woman with auburn hair holding a silver hand mirror, red drapery, and a dark floral background.

The Silver Hand Glass

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Painting of a sunlit hacienda seen through dark trees, with a lake, sailboats, and a seated figure in the foreground.

A Mexican Hacienda, Lake Cuitzeo

Thomas Moran, 1880

Oil portrait of a bearded man in a dark suit and bow tie, with a domed building faintly visible at right.

Abraham Lincoln

George H. Story, 1910

Cubist painting of fragmented geometric planes in muted greens and creams, with a red form at upper left and a suggested guit

Figure with Guitar II

Henry Fitch Taylor, 1910

Watercolor of a branch with long green leaves and fluffy white willow catkins with yellow stamens on a pale background.

Drummond Willow (Salix drummondiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920