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Oil portrait of an elderly bald man with white beard and mustache in a dark suit, seated beside a red book and a framed lands

Dr. William H. Holmes

Edmund Hodgson Smart, 1930

Painting of a draped woman holding a glass sphere while a nude child reaches up beside a balustrade at dusk.

Illusions

Henry Brown Fuller, 1901

Painting of slender birch trees framing a blue lake and distant shoreline under a pale sky.

A Family of Birches

Willard Metcalf, 1907

Painting of a crowded city street with tenements, laundry lines, a fruit cart, and families gathered in the foreground.

Scenes of New York--Lower East Side (mural study, Madison Square Postal Station, New York City)

Kindred McLeary, 1930

Painting of a nude woman with long red hair seated at an ornate gold and cream dressing table with a mirror.

Nude Seated at Her Dressing Table

Frederick Carl Frieseke, 1909

Painted portrait of a woman in a black dress and gold bead necklace seated beside a window with a red curtain.

Woman with Gold Necklace

Prior-Hamblen School, 1850

Full-length portrait of a woman in a sequined blue gown on a stone terrace with a small dog at her feet.

Miss Anne Mills Archbold

Frederick MacMonnies, 1900

Seated woman in a flowered gown with upswept hair, resting arms on a wooden chair against a muted background.

A Flowered Gown

Thomas Anshutz, 1906

Painted wooden panel of Saint Anthony in a brown habit holding the Christ Child, both with halos, on a worn gold ground.

St. Anthony with the Christ Child

Arroyo Hondo Painter, 1825

Painting of Adam and Eve with a red serpent and apple tree, a swan, and a winged figure with a sword in a colorful landscape.

(Adam and Eve)

Carl Newman, 1930

Two nude women stand by a stone pool beneath tall dark cypress trees, with a peacock and distant mountains in the background.

After the Bath

Charles Walter Stetson, 1910

Elderly bearded man with a skull and quill, gazing up at a winged angel in a dark, dramatic landscape.

St. Jerome

William Merritt Chase, 1872

Two tattooed men with loincloths stand on a sandy beach holding a paddle and woven fan, with mountains behind them.

Marquesan Men

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

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

Mrs. Richard Alsop

Ralph Earl, 1792

Painted portrait of a man in a cream suit seated on a wooden chair, holding an orange cat, beside a bright window.

Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker)

Cecilia Beaux, 1898

Oil portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed hat, fringed buckskin jacket and red collar, with braided hair, against a warm backgr

Sitting Bull

Julian Scott, 1900

Oval half-length portrait of a young man in a dark coat with brass buttons and white cravat, against a red background.

Portrait of Sea Captain John Murphy

Joshua Johnson, 1810

Hand-colored portrait of Yoholo-Micco, a Creek chief, wearing a patterned white coat, striped sash, and striped headwrap.

Portrait of Yoholo-Micco (c.1790-c.1844)

Charles Bird King, 1836

Painting of a uniformed officer standing beside a seated woman in a yellow headscarf at a table in a rustic arched room.

Officer with Peasant

Portrait of a woman in a lace bonnet, ruffled white collar and dark green dress, hands folded in her lap.

Lady of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1829

Watercolor of a stone tower and arched bridge over a river, with red roofs and a cloudy blue sky.

Bridge at Moret, France

Cass Gilbert, 1928

Two women in summer dresses read a book together on a grassy dune, with a dog resting nearby under a cloudy sky.

On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty)

James Jebusa Shannon, 1910

Full-length painting of a man in red fez and traditional dress holding a rifle, with mountains and river behind him.

Albanian Man

Antonio Zeno Shindler, 1890

Oil portrait of a man with wavy dark hair in a black coat, holding a rolled document, against a grey background.

Gentleman of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1829

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair in a black coat and white high-collared shirt against a brown background.

Portrait of John Woodruff Sims

John Woodruff Sims, 1810

Watercolor of red sandstone cliffs and spires above green trees and a winding stream under a pale sky.

Hudson River Landscape, no. 1

Maria Rother Wickey, 1926

Oval portrait of a woman in a blue dress with white lace trim against a dark background, painted in 1742.

Mrs. Gustavus Brown

Gustavus Hesselius, 1742

Painting of a haloed bearded man in pink robe and green cloak gesturing, with robed figures and a hilly landscape behind.

Christ Addressing the People

Bonifazio di Pitati, 1400

Painting of a woman in a shawl seated on a bed, lit by an oil lamp in a dark room.

Mary, by Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1914

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a black puff-sleeved dress resting on a red patterned cushion, with a framed picture on the

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)

John Singer Sargent, 1893