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Watercolor of a maroon trillium flower with three broad green leaves on a tall pale green stem.

Whippoorwill Flower (Trillium H.)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Watercolor of two delphinium stems with blue and purple flowers, green buds and lobed leaves on a pale background.

Delphinium (Delphinium scopulorum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a plant stem with red tubular flowers with yellow stamens and pointed green leaves on cream paper.

Carolina Pink (Spigelia marylandica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1932

(Head) from Tomb, Egypt

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor botanical study of yellow mariposa lily blossoms with fringed petals, buds, and green stems on a cream background.

San Diego Mariposa (Calochortus weedii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Mt. Olympus

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Dark wash drawing of a graveyard with a brick tomb, a headstone in the foreground, and a white house among trees.

Graveyard Scene

Ernest C. Peixotto, 1940

Pencil and wash sketch of a stone prison interior with a barred window, vaulted corner, and stone floor.

Interior of Tasso's Prison, Ferrara

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of slender stems with clusters of bright red star-shaped flowers and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Gilia arizonica

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1931

Francesco, Hermit of Venice

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Pencil sketch of a columned Egyptian temple interior with a robed figure standing near a column.

Egyptian Temple

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Watercolor of a deep red pitcher plant bloom on a tall green stem beside green pitcher leaves on cream paper.

Red Pitcherplant (Sarracenia jonesii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a pine branch with green needles and clusters of dark purple-red cones on a cream background.

Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1931

Watercolor of two tall stems with clusters of small white flowers and narrow green leaves on a pale background.

Miner's Candle (Oreocarya virgata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Pencil sketch of a lake framed by distant hills, with trees, a stone wall, and small figures in the foreground.

Sea of Tiberias, From Tabor

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Charcoal drawing of a chalice amid swirling white and dark spirals, with a handwritten verse on a label below.

(Illustration for Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám) The Cup of Despair

Elihu Vedder, 1880

Pencil sketch of a hillside town of flat-roofed houses between mountains, with palm trees and an inscription at lower left.

Syra

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of a Purple Monkey-Flower sprig with magenta blossoms, yellow throats, green leaves, and a visible root on cream p

Purple Monkey-Flower (Mimulus bigelovii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Charcoal sketch of a man in a dark hat embracing a woman, their faces close together, on cream paper.

Mother and Child

Watercolor of a white-flowered saxifrage plant with a leafy green rosette and slender flowering stems on cream paper.

Saxifrage (Saxifraga caespitosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil drawing of a wooden and steel toll bridge over rippling water, with pilings, small buildings and trees on the bank.

Toll Bridge, Indian Rocks, Florida

Walter Ronald Locke, 1930

Pencil sketch of a woman inhaling from a tube as a man in a top hat, a child, and a seated woman look on.

The Laughing Gas

William Glackens

Watercolor of pink five-petaled Sabbatia flowers with yellow centers, green stems, leaves and buds on a pale background.

Saltmarsh Rosegentian (Sabbatia stellaris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a cap by a wooden doorway, with a cooking pot and a head study above.

Untitled (Asian Dock Worker)

Walter Ronald Locke, 1940

Pencil drawing of a seated man in period dress with lace cuffs, shown in a shaded interior with a chair.

Seated Man in Eighteenth Century Dress

William Page, 1810

Watercolor of yellow bushpoppy flowers and buds on reddish stems with narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Bushpoppy (Dendromecon rigidum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Pastel portrait of a bandaged French soldier in a kepi and dark coat, drawn on green paper.

Un Poilu Blesse, 1915

Henri Gervex, 1910

Charcoal drawing of a bearded soldier with rifle standing in a rain-soaked field under falling rain.

Les Poilus

Louis Abel Truchet, 1910

Watercolor of a red-flowered plant with round green leaves and fringed pink blossoms on slender stems against a pale backgrou

Schizocodon soldanelloides

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of Pussy-ears flowers with pale lavender blossoms, buds, a seed pod and long green leaves on a cream background.

Pussy-ears (Calochortus elegans)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923