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Loose painted autumn landscape with golden and orange trees, a stream, a small waterfall and dark rocks.

Autumn Landscape

Louis Eilshemius, 1910

Painting of a pale lake with wooded islands, reeds, white swans, and distant blue hills under a soft cloudy sky.

Lac du Cygne (Swan Lake), Near the Coteau des Prairies

George Catlin, 1830

Painted portrait of a Native American man in a feathered headdress, beaded necklaces and fur robe, against a cloudy sky.

Shó-me-kós-see, The Wolf, a Chief

George Catlin, 1830

Dark seascape of a steamboat with smoke and a red flag in choppy water under a stormy sky.

Squall, Brenton Light (boat in storm, lighthouse in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Oil portrait of a seated woman with dark bobbed hair in a dark dress against a muted green background.

Martha

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Seated woman in beaded dress holding an infant in a decorated cradleboard beside a tree, painted in muted earth tones.

Jú-ah-kís-gaw, Woman With Her Child in a Cradle

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a mounted warrior with a lance on a white horse beside a painted hide tepee on grassland.

Comanche Lodge of Buffalo Skins

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a green hillside with dark pine trees on the left, a stone wall curving across the slope, and a pale blue sky.

Landscape, Cornish, N.H.

John White Alexander, 1890

Painting of a riverbank with trees, a cow drinking at the water and two cows in the distance under a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape, riverbank, three cows)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painting of a hilly landscape with dark evergreen trees, scattered rocks in a grassy field, and a cloudy sky.

Untitled (landscape, fields with rocks and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Painting of two nude women by a wooded river, one standing by a tree and one reclining on the bank, in loose blue and yellow

Standing and Reclining Nymphs

Louis Eilshemius, 1900

Mandan men in feathered headdresses practice archery on a grassy plain with rolling hills behind them.

Archery of the Mandan

George Catlin, 1830

Small oil painting of a river at sunset with a red sun, dark trees, rocks, and two figures by a campfire.

Indians at Campfire--Moon Rising

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1820

Hazy landscape painting of a still pond surrounded by dark trees, with misty mountains and a warm, muted sky above.

Kayser's Pond, Maine

John Bunyan Bristol, 1820

Oil portrait of a woman in a plumed brown hat and fur collar, painted in loose brushstrokes against a dark background.

Portrait of Mrs. John Gellatly

Eleanor Greatorex, 1890

Oil painting of a partly draped woman with long hair lifting one arm, set against a red cloth and dark interior.

Undine

Henry Peters Gray, 1840

Portrait of a man with long dark hair, face paint and beaded earrings, holding a feathered staff against a green background.

Shón-ka, The Dog, Chief of the Bad Arrow Points Band

George Catlin, 1830

Ah-tón-we-tuck, Cock Turkey, Repeating His Prayer

George Catlin, 1830

Dark landscape painting of cows resting in a field beneath a stormy sky, with trees on the left and right.

Untitled (landscape with cows and trees)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Oil painting of a farmhouse with cattle and a rider on a rural road beneath tall trees and cumulus clouds.

Barnyard Scene

Robert Ladbrooke, 1770

Oil portrait of a man in a brown coat with gold buttons, white ruffled jabot, and powdered grey wig, resting on a table.

Jeremiah Williams

Christian Gullager, 1780

Painted portrait of a man in a black cap with red and white feathers, red face paint, and a decorated pipe.

Mah-kée-mee-teuv, Grizzly Bear, Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of tipis on green prairie with smoke rising, buffalo, horse riders, drying meat racks, and a hide on a frame.

Sioux Encamped on the Upper Missouri, Dressing Buffalo Meat and Robes

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of Mandan men in buffalo costumes dancing in a village plaza before domed lodges and a crowd of onlookers.

Bull Dance, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony

George Catlin, 1830

Oil painting of a cottage among trees beside a lake at sunset, with a distant white sailboat on the water.

Untitled (house in woods near lake)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1890

Portrait of a Fox man with face paint, braided hair, horned headdress, and war club, in a red blanket.

Kish-ke-kosh

Alexander Davis Cooper, 1830

Dark oil landscape of a stormy sky with pale light breaking through clouds above a path and a cluster of trees.

The Storm

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1880

Oil portrait of a Sac man with a roached hairstyle, beaded necklace, silver earrings, holding feathers against a cloudy sky.

Múk-a-tah-mish-o-káh-kaik, Black Hawk, Prominent Sac Chief

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a turbaned man in red and blue robes reclining on a green divan, smoking a long pipe, before red drapery.

The Smoker

Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, 1790

Painting of a large dark grizzly bear's head and claws looming over a tiny mouse on the ground under a pale sky.

Portraits of a Grizzly Bear and Mouse, Life Size

George Catlin, 1840