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Painting of a woman in a white dress and straw hat with two children seated under sunlit trees.

Springtime in France

Painting of a red fox and a hawk contesting a dead grouse in a grassy clearing beneath a wooded hillside.

Disputed Game

Thomas Hewes Hinckley, 1850

Painting of a woman in a green dress beside a blue vase, with peacock feathers and a patterned wall behind her.

Woman and Peacock

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Painted portrait of an older man in a red headwrap and beaded necklace, with a fur robe, against a brown background.

Deep Lake, an Old Chief

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of four cows wading in a pond beneath dark trees, with a stormy sky and open fields beyond.

Untitled (Four Cows Wading in Pond)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Two arched allegorical panels labeled Science and Art, showing a seated veiled woman with books and a reclining woman with a

The Progress of Civilization: Science and Art (mural study, State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Painting of heavy ocean waves crashing with white foam over dark rocks under a pale overcast sky.

Heavy Sea

Paul Dougherty, 1910

Painting of a river valley with cattle wading at the shore, a seated figure on a boulder, and mountains under a hazy sky.

Hudson River at Cold Spring

Johann Hermann Carmiencke, 1860

Natalie at Seven

Alice Pike Barney, 1880

Portrait of a man with long hair, red face paint, and two feathers, wearing a fringed beaded shirt against a green sky.

Mix-ke-móte-skin-na, Iron Horn, a Warrior

George Catlin, 1830

Portrait of a woman in a dark gown with green sash, gold earrings and feathered headpiece against a dark background.

Kate Deering Ridgely

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Painting of a dusky hillside with two cows on the crest and a figure in a red shawl under a bright, cloudy sky.

Untitled (cows descending hillside)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Oil portrait of a man in a feathered headdress, beaded headband and fringed buckskin shirt, gazing to the side.

Táh-téck-a-da-háir, Steep Wind, a Brave of the Bad Arrow Points Band

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a seated woman in a blue polka dot dress, flowered hat and white gloves, on a red ladder-back chair.

The Polka Dot Dress

George Luks, 1920

Still life painting of grapes, peaches, oysters, strawberries and a champagne flute on a marble table against a dark backgrou

Still Life with Fruit, Oysters, and Wine

n.d Everhart Kuhn, 1860

Painting of a shaded garden path with a draped statue on a pedestal, a balustrade, and a distant tower under a hazy sky.

Garden of the Tuileries, Paris

Minerva J. Chapman, 1940

Painted portrait of a standing Indigenous man in feathered headdress, fringed robe and beaded moccasins beside a shield.

Eé-hee-a-duck-cée-a, He Who Ties His Hair Before

George Catlin, 1830

Oval portrait of a young girl with curled dark hair, blue ribbons, and a white puff-sleeved dress against a dark background.

Georgianna Frances Adams

Asher Brown Durand, 1830

Dusky landscape painting with a pale sun over a hazy sky, dark trees on the left, and a dirt road leading to hills.

The Close of Day

Charles Melville Dewey, 1930

Painting of a sunset over flat marshland with a dark rowboat in the foreground and a distant town silhouetted on the horizon.

Sunset Scene

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Painting of a Mandan village cemetery: a circle of skulls, feathered poles and bison skulls on a green plain before earthlodg

Back View of Mandan Village, Showing the Cemetery

George Catlin, 1830

Chief Black-Coyote

Elbridge Ayer Burbank, 1900

Ho-me-hep-no-my

Elbridge Ayer Burbank, 1900

Loose oil portrait of a woman with auburn hair in a pale ruffled blouse against an olive background.

Study in Auburn

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Painted portrait of a young woman with curly hair, white headscarf, pearl necklace and cameo pendant, against a sunset landsc

Vinnie Ream

George Peter Alexander Healy, 1870

Painting of a crowd of feathered men dancing on open grassland, raising shields, lances, and tomahawks under a pale sky.

Scalp Dance, Mouth of the Teton River

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a herdsman with a team of oxen in a green pastoral landscape with trees and hills under a cloudy sky.

Herdsmen with Cows

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1860

Painting of two hunters on snowshoes chasing bison through deep snow, with a herd and snowy hills in the background.

Buffalo Chase in Snowdrifts, Indians Pursuing on Snowshoes

George Catlin, 1830

Painted portrait of a woman in fringed buckskin dress with a blue disc necklace, red neckerchief and long black hair.

Tchow-ee-pút-o-kaw, a Woman

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a crowded ball game on a grassy field with men in red loincloths and rolling green hills behind.

Ball-play of the Choctaw--Ball Down

George Catlin, 1830