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Watercolor of a sprig of yellow alpine ragwort flowers with green leaves, red stems and buds on a pale background.

Alpine Ragwort (Senecio species)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of shooting star flowers with pink reflexed petals and green basal leaves on a cream background.

Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor and ink landscape of pine trees by a coastline, with a handwritten French dedication signed P. Signac.

Landscape

Paul Signac, 1910

Painting of huge pale wings around a red mass with a skeletal figure holding a scythe, framed by dark curtains and a teal sky

God's Idea

Da Loria Norman, 1930

Watercolor and pencil sheet with stylized figures in brown, blue and orange washes, some only lightly outlined.

Humorous Figures

n.d Phil Nesbitt, 1900

Watercolor of two stems with pink nodding flowers and serrated green leaves on a pale background.

Western Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a purple trillium flower above three broad green leaves on a slender stem.

Trillium erectum

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a Labrador tea branch with a round cluster of white flowers and narrow green leaves on brown stems.

Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a branch of ripe persimmons with reddish-orange fruit and dark calyces hanging from brown twigs.

Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Mexican Fremontia branch with a yellow flower, an orange-red bloom, and lobed green leaves.

Mexican Fremontia (Fremontodendron mexicanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of red canna lily blooms and a small star-shaped cypress vine flower on a green stem with feathery foliage.

Cannas and Cypress Vine (Canna species and Ipomoea quamoclit)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of a whortleberry branch with green leaves, red buds, and one dark berry on cream paper.

Grouse Whortleberry (Vaccinum scoparium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a Sedum stenopetalum plant with yellow flowers and green leaves on a cream background.

Sedum stenopetalum

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a white-berried baneberry plant with a red stem and golden autumn leaves on a cream background.

Ivory Baneberry (Actaea arguta)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a stem with clusters of small yellow flowers and narrow gray-green leaves on a pale background.

Lithospermum canescens

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a clasping twisted stalk plant with ribbed green leaves and hanging red berries on a cream background.

Clasping Twisted Stalk (Streptopus amplexifolius)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two white globe-shaped northern onion flower heads on tall green stems above narrow leaves.

Northern Onion (Allium sibiricum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a butterwort with green leaves, slender stalks, and one violet flower on pale paper.

Pinguicula vulgaris

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor botanical study of a slender plant with narrow leaves and small yellow star-shaped flowers on a cream background.

Bastard Toadflax (Comandra pallida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of green pyrola with pale green bell-shaped flowers, round leaves and red stems on a cream background.

Green Pyrola (Pyrola chlorantha)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Western Mountain Ash branch with clusters of red berries and green serrated leaves on a pale background.

Western Mountain Ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of white bearpoppy flowers with yellow stamens, hairy buds, and grey-green hairy leaves on curving stems.

Bearpoppy (Arctomecon merriami)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of yellow bushpoppy flowers, buds and narrow green leaves on branching reddish stems against a pale background.

Bushpoppy (Dendromecon rigidum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a vervain plant with clusters of pink and purple flowers and thin green leaves on a cream background.

Vervain (Verbena wrightii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of two stems of pink fireweed flowers and buds with long green leaves on a pale background.

Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a branch with red autumn maple leaves veined in green and yellow on a cream background.

Untitled (Autumn Leaves)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Loose watercolor portrait of a young woman with bowed head, yellow hair and clasped hands against a pink background.

The Artist's Daughter

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Watercolor of a fireweed stem with pink and magenta blossoms, buds and narrow green leaves on white paper.

Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a Showy Aster stem with lavender daisy-like flowers and green serrated leaves on a cream background.

Showy Aster (Aster conspicuus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a box huckleberry branch with pink bell-shaped flowers and green oval leaves on reddish stems.

Box Huckleberry (Gaylussacia brachycera)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910