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Oil study of two allegorical female figures in pink and gold drapery flanking a WELCOME cartouche on teal.

Study for Mural at Hotel Manhattan, "Peace and Plenty"

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Loose oil painting of a sunlit street with pale buildings, a bell tower, and groups of walking figures in dark and blue cloth

Street Scene

Eleanor Harris, 1940

Painting of a nude woman seated on a bank in a dark forest beside a rock, with light breaking through the trees.

At Nature's Mirror

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1880

Horsemen galloping through wind-blown grass chasing a buffalo herd across an open prairie under a streaked sky.

Bogard, Batiste, and I Chasing Buffalo in High Grass on a Missouri Bottom

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a man carrying a pole across an autumn field past haystacks and a birch tree under a cloudy sky.

Return from the Farm

Elliott Daingerfield, 1920

Painting of Plains hunters on horseback and on foot chasing bison over green hills, with a fallen bison and wounded horse in

Buffalo Chase, Bulls Making Battle with Men and Horses

George Catlin, 1830

Loose oil landscape of dense trees with rust and green foliage beside water under a pale, cloudy sky.

Landscape (trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of mounted riders with bows drawing near a rock outcrop on an open plain under a brushed, cloudy sky.

Comanche Giving Arrows to the Medicine Rock

George Catlin, 1830

Endymion

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Oil portrait of a young woman with brown hair in a green dress and white lace collar, against a brown background.

Nancy

George de Forest Brush, 1900

Small landscape of cows wading in a calm lake beside a wooded hillside, with ducks on the shore.

(Small Landscape)

Thomas Hicks, 1860

Painting of a garden path beside a flowering bed, with a dark doorway, a wooden barrel, and green shuttered windows on a pale

A Garden Path

Robert Henry Logan, 1890

Painting of a seated woman in a gold dress offering her hand to a cockatoo on a table in a richly furnished room.

Woman with Cockatoo

Peter Oliver Foss, 1910

Painting of eroded clay bluffs in red and yellow above a green plain, with small figures and a spear at the lower left.

"Brick Kilns," Clay Bluffs 1900 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a standing man in fringed buckskin, red leggings and beaded moccasins, holding a feathered staff, with a bow and

Wáh-chees, a Brave

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a nude woman with raised arms seated on rocks beside a waterfall, with a bare tree and cloudy sky.

Portrait of Rose Marie

Louis Eilshemius, 1910

Portrait of Mrs. Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson, 1880

Painting of a seated man with closed eyes singing while playing a brown acoustic guitar against an olive background.

Blind Spanish Singer

Robert Henri, 1910

Painting of a dim rustic kitchen with a glowing hearth, pots, shelves, and a doorway opening onto a stone staircase.

Interior of a Kitchen

Eliphalet Fraser Andrews, 1910

Half-length oil portrait of a woman in a black dress, fur cape and feathered hat against a dark background.

Natalie in Fur Cape

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Oil painting of a bouquet of pink, white and red flowers in a speckled white vase on an orange table.

Still Life of Flowers

Arshile Gorky, 1920

Oil portrait of a young girl in a green bonnet with white flowers, green sash, and yellow-orange dress against gray-green bac

Sara in a Green Bonnet

Mary Cassatt, 1900

Painting of a shaded forest path with trees, a red fence and building, and water with distant hills beyond.

Untitled (landscape, forest scene with red fence and building)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of cows drinking from a stream beside trees, with grazing cows in a meadow and a cloudy sky above.

Untitled (landscape with cows in stream near trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Three arched mural studies showing a blacksmith, a seated woman with a caduceus and a carrying child, and a woman reading wit

The Progress of Civilization: The Forge, Commerce, and Education (mural study, State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Painting of a river village with houses on a wooded hill, a sailboat on the water, and a figure with a dog on the shore.

Dorchester 1856

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1850

Painting of the Nativity with the infant Christ in a manger, Mary and Joseph, shepherd, ox, donkey, and an arched stone inter

The Nativity

Juan González, 1660

Painting of a band of riders, horses and travois crossing a wide green plain under a pink sky.

Band of Sioux Moving Camp

George Catlin, 1830

Oil portrait of a Native American man in a feathered striped headband, red blanket, and beaded jewelry, holding a pipe stem.

No Heart (Nan-che-ning-ga)

Charles Bird King, 1830

Dark night landscape with a bright moon, silhouetted trees, and a glowing campfire beside a small shelter and figures.

The Canoe Builders

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1900