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Pastel still life of pink and yellow roses in a dark round vase on a green draped cloth.

Roses

William Merritt Chase, 1883

Watercolor of branching stems with pink five-petaled centaurium flowers, yellow centers, and green buds on cream paper.

Pink Centaurium (Centaurium venustum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a red-bracted Tillandsia bromeliad with violet flowers among long green arching leaves.

Quill-Leaf Tillandsia (Tillandsia fasciculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of orange Mexican poppies with buds and feathery gray-green leaves on a pale background.

Mexican Poppy (Eschscholtzia mexicana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Watercolor of a green leaf with camouflaged caterpillars along its edge and brown feeding damage on a dark background.

Smaller Spotted Beach Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Emma Beach Thayer

Watercolor of a white anemone flower with yellow stamens and green serrated leaves on a pale background.

Anemone canadensis

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Abstract watercolor of overlapping geometric shapes, arcs, and striped forms in muted browns, grays, and yellows.

No. 2

Will Henry Stevens, 1930

Watercolor of a branching owl-clover plant with clusters of pink flower bracts and narrow green leaves on cream paper.

Owl-clover (Orthocarpus tenuifolius)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a sprig of small pink and magenta wildflowers with slender stems and feathery green leaves on cream paper.

Gilia linanthus parviflorus

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of an American pasqueflower with a feathery purple seed head on a tall stem and fine green leaves.

American Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla ludoviciana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Bruges marketplace with a Gothic townhouse, women with baskets, umbrella stalls and a church spire.

Marketplace at Bruges

Samuel Prout, 1780

Watercolor of red-orange spotted lily blossoms with dark stamens and narrow green leaves on a tall stem.

Red Lily (Lilium montanum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Strawberry Bush sprig with green leaves and small white flowers with yellow centers on pale paper.

Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of two stems of red larkspur with magenta spurred flowers and green buds on a pale background.

Red Larkspur (Delphinium nudicale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a gentian plant with pale lavender flowers, buds and green leaves on a white background.

Gentian (Gentiana newberri)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1938

Watercolor of a turtlehead plant with narrow green leaves and clustered white and pink tubular flowers on a tall stem.

Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a drooping arborvitae branch with green scale-like foliage and clusters of small pale green cones.

Giant Arborvitae (Thuja plicata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Watercolor of a spotted pipsissewa plant with white flowers on red stems above green serrated leaves.

Spotted Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a blazing star stem with yellow flowers, buds, serrated green leaves and a dried seed pod on pale paper.

Blazing Star (Mentzelia laevicaulis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a pink-flowered Western Cranesbill plant with lobed green leaves, buds and stems on a pale background.

Western Cranesbill (Geranium viscosissimum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Watercolor of a red pitcher plant bloom and green pitcher leaves on pale stems against a cream background.

Drummond Pitcherplant (Sarracenia drummondii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Pen and wash drawing of a veiled apparition pointing at a kneeling man while robed figures react in an arched room.

Untitled - Antonio Basoli

Watercolor of a pink wild rose with red buds and thorny stems beside two small blue blue-eyed grass flowers.

Wild Rose and Blue-eyed Grass (Rosa species and Sisyrinchium species)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Watercolor of a bladder campion stem with white flowers, pink-purple buds and green leaves on a pale background.

Bladder Campion (Silene latifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a yaupon holly branch with red berries and green serrated leaves on a pale background.

Yaupon (Ilex vomitoria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Watercolor of a tall red snow plant stalk with clusters of bell-shaped blossoms and curling reddish leaves at its base.

Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a tuliptree branch with a yellow and orange blossom, green buds and large lobed leaves on white paper.

Tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a young boy in a blue suit with a ruffled collar, holding a pistol, walking across a green hillside.

Portrait of Edward Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Watercolor of two purple iris flowers with green leaves and a small closed bud on a pale background.

Iris (Iris species)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1939

Watercolor botanical study of Wood Merrybells with drooping yellow flowers and green clasping leaves on a cream background.

Wood Merrybells (Uvularia perfoliata)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Watercolor of a coastal village with houses, trees, and sailboats on blue water, painted in loose colorful brushstrokes.

New England Coastal Village

Maurice Prendergast, 1910

Watercolor of two stems of red-pink penstemon flowers with buds and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Parry's Penstemon (Penstemon parryi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Portrait of Elizabeth Sweitzer Musser

Jacob Maentel, 1820

Watercolor of a yellow wake-robin trillium with three mottled green leaves on a single upright stem against a pale background

Wake-Robin (Trillium underwoodii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1937

Watercolor of a branch with white blossoms, pink buds and serrated green leaves on a pale background.

Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of an ocotillo branch with red tubular flowers, yellow stamens, buds and green leaves on a pale background.

Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a steaming geyser pool with yellow terraces, pine trees on the right, and misty mountains in the distance.

Excelsior Geyser, Yellowstone Park

Thomas Moran, 1870

Watercolor of white bearpoppy flowers, buds and hairy grey-green leaves on a pale background.

Bearpoppy (Arctomecon merriami)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1935

Watercolor of a blue bell-shaped alpine harebell flower with green leaves and stem on a cream background.

Alpine Harebell (Campanula lasiocarpa)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Watercolor of rolling plains, rocky bluffs and a distant mountain with a mounted rider and figures crossing the grassland.

The Wichita Mountains from Medicine Bluff, Indian Territory

Hermann Stieffel, 1860

Watercolor of two brown stems with clusters of magenta berries on a cream background.

Beauty Berry (Callicarpa americana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Watercolor of a buff monkeyflower stem with orange tubular blossoms and green serrated leaves on cream paper.

Buff Monkeyflower (Diplacus longiflorus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1926

Watercolor of a spotted pipsissewa plant with white flowers, reddish stems and striped green leaves on a cream background.

Spotted Pipsissewa (Chimaphila maculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1918

Watercolor of a clustered broomrape plant with pale yellow flowers and brownish scale-like stems on a cream background.

Broomrape (Orobanche fasciculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1933

Watercolor of a winterberry branch with clusters of bright red berries on gray stems against a cream background.

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a small cranberry plant with pink flowers and green leaves rising from moss on a cream background.

Small Cranberry (Oxycoccus palustris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a sweetbay magnolia branch with two open white flowers, a closed bud and large green leaves.

Sweetbay (Magnolia virginiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Crane-Fly Orchis spike with small pale flowers rising from a broad brown leaf, signed M.V.W. 1920.

Crane-Fly Orchis (Tipularia uniflora)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Oval miniature portrait of a man with powdered hair, blue coat and white cravat against a brown background.

George Fisher

Raphaelle Peale, 1790

Watercolor of a Clintonia borealis plant with broad green leaves and three nodding yellow-green flowers on a stem.

Blue Bead (Clintonia borealis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1924

Watercolor landscape of a road, a windmill on a rise, two walking figures, and a large cloudy sky.

Small Landscape (Dutch)

Sr John Varley, 1770

Watercolor of yellow violet flowers with rounded green leaves and roots on a cream background.

Yellow Violet (Viola orbiculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of brook lobelia with two slender stems of purple flowers and reddish basal leaves on cream paper.

Brook Lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Watercolor botanical study of purple gentian flowers with green leaves and red stems on a cream background.

Riverbank Gentian (Gentiana affinis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a devilsclub plant with clusters of red berries, spiny stems and large lobed green leaves on pale paper.

Devilsclub (Echinopanax horridum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a Lewis monkey flower stem with magenta tubular blossoms, buds and green leaves on a pale background.

Lewis Monkey Flower (Mimulus lewisii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1899

Watercolor of Larnaca harbor with white buildings, a two-masted ship with a red flag, and hills behind the town.

Port of Larnaca

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Watercolor of a thorny branch with pink five-petaled flowers, yellow stamens, buds and green leaves on tan paper.

Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of a longleaf pine with a purple-red cone cluster surrounded by radiating long green needles.

Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor botanical study of a flowering plant with a cluster of maroon-green blossoms, seed pods and long green leaves.

Untitled--Plant Study

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a spiny cactus with three bright red flowers with yellow centers on a cream background.

Hedgehog Cactus (Coryphantha arizonica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a mounted soldier with a rifle galloping a brown horse across a sandy plain toward distant hills.

The Advance Guard

Frederic Remington, 1880

Watercolor of a bristle-cone pine branch with green needles and two dark reddish-purple cones on a pale background.

Bristle-Cone Pine (Pinus aristata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a loblolly pine branch with long green needles and clusters of reddish-orange cones on a brown trunk.

Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor study of a green oak leaf with tan damaged patches and a caterpillar shelter, labeled Fig. 14.

Oak Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Gerald H. Thayer

Watercolor botanical study of a forget-me-not plant with blue flowers, green leaves and roots on a cream background.

Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis alpestris)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of tassel cottongrass stems with fluffy white seed heads and slender green leaves on a pale background.

Tassel Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor study of a pale pinesap plant with curled pale stems and drooping flower buds on a cream background.

Pale Pinesap (Hypopitys americana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a white-flowered saxifrage plant with green rosette leaves and a tall stem rising from brown soil.

Early Saxifrage (Saxifraga virginiensis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of bottle gentian stems with clustered blue-violet closed flowers and green leaves on a pale background.

Bottle Gentian (Gentiana saponaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of two branches with oval green leaves and bright red berries on a pale background.

Red Comandra (Comandra livida)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of orange Mexican poppies with buds and feathery grey-green leaves on a pale background.

Mexican Poppy (Eschscholtzia mexicana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a Labrador tea branch with white flower clusters and narrow green leaves on a cream background.

Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of white trillium flowers with yellow centers and broad green whorled leaves on a pale background.

Large White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of children with a yellow sailboat beached on a sandy shore beside a wooden building and calm water.

Summertime

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor of a climbing clematis vine with two ruffled purple and white flowers, green leaves, and curling tendrils.

Curly Clematis (Clematis crispa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Painting of four draped women in a landscape, one hooded figure behind, gesturing toward a plant in a stone planter under a b

Allegorical Figures

René Piot, 1910

Watercolor of a Monterey cypress branch with green foliage, brown cones, and a green cone cluster on a pale background.

Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Loose pencil and colored chalk sketch of a church spire and trees above a river, with reflections in the water.

Landscape

Maxime Maufra, 1910

Watercolor of a pink rose bud, a purple violet, and fern fronds on a pale background.

Pink Rose with Violet

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of Bronzebells plant with arching stems, reddish-brown bell-shaped flowers and long green leaves on cream paper.

Bronzebells (Stenanthium occidentale)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a drooping blue Columbia clematis flower with green leaves and stems on cream paper.

Columbia Clematis (Clematis columbiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor study of small pink flowers with yellow centers on thin green stems, set on a pale background with a soft shadow.

Untitled--Flower Study

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a white umbrella magnolia blossom with broad green leaves and a brown branch.

Umbrella Tree (Magnolia tripetala)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of two Rocky Mountain twayblade orchid stems with small green flowers and broad leaves on cream paper.

Rocky Mountain Twayblade (Ophrys necrophylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of white trout lily flowers on arching stems above mottled green leaves, on cream paper.

White Troutlily (Erythronium albidum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a flowering highbush blackberry branch with white blossoms, green serrated leaves and thorny stem.

Highbush Blackberry (Rubus argutus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Abstract painting of layered red, orange and yellow forms with concentric black, gray and white outlines on a pale yellow bac

Study in Rhythm: Red and Gold

Joseph Schillinger, 1930

Watercolor of a brook lobelia plant with purple flowers, green stems and reddish basal leaves on cream paper.

Brook Lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a wild pineapple bromeliad with spreading silvery leaves, green inner bracts, and a brown bark stem.

Wild Pineapple (Tillandsia fasciculata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a hybrid pitcher plant with a drooping dark red flower and green tubular pitcher leaves on cream paper.

Hybrid Pitcherplant (Sarracenia rubra xs purpurea venosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a willow branch with two magenta-tinged catkin buds and green leaves on pink stems.

Willow (Salix)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair, dark coat with brass buttons, and white cravat, in a metal frame.

Portrait of Thomas Blackmore

Thomas Blackmore

Watercolor of two seated granite colossi at Thebes, Egypt, with a small figure at right and desert hills behind.

Statues at Memnon, Thebes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Watercolor of a pickerelweed plant with a spike of violet flowers, broad green leaves, and a bud on a pale background.

Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of a bottle gentian stem with clustered purple-blue buds and green lance-shaped leaves on a cream background.

Bottle Gentian (Gentiana saponaria)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900