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Watercolor and pencil drawing of a red oil tanker with masts, rigging and a cargo boom beside a green shoreline.

Oil Tanker II

Arthur Dove, 1930

Pencil sketch of a flat Nile riverbank with sailboats and distant hills, with a handwritten inscription naming the Pyramid of

Approach to Cairo from the Nile with the Pyramid of Cheops

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Charcoal sketch of mounted officers, one raising a sabre, leading infantry through smoke and burning buildings on a battlefie

Washington and Lee at Monmouth

Hazy watercolor of lavender mountains and blue misty hills under a pale sky, signed by Arthur B. Davies.

Blue Mist

Arthur Bowen Davies, 1920

Pencil drawing of a large iceberg rising above choppy sea, with handwritten location notes at lower left.

Iceberg

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1860

Pencil sketch of the village of San Piero a Grado with a tall bell tower, tiled roofs and trees under a pale sky.

San Piero a Grado, near Pisa

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Charcoal drawing of moored boats and rowboats on water in a harbor, with waterfront buildings and masts behind.

London in the Pool

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a coffee house interior with arched columns, low platforms, and a standing man in a turban.

Caffee at Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch of San Xavier Mission with twin bell towers, a domed roof, cacti and small figures in the foreground.

Untitled (transfer drawing for San Xavier Mission, Tucson, Arizona)

George Elbert Burr, 1920

Watercolor of clowns in striped costumes falling from brown horses on a dusty ground, with green trees behind.

Clowns and Horses

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Pencil sketch of an arid landscape with a rocky outcrop, a dark well opening, shrubs, and distant mountains.

Bier il Muhra "Well of Bitter Water"

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil sketch in an open sketchbook of a village with a church spire in a valley below mountains.

(Sketchbook) Down Rhone Valley from Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil drawing of a Chicago street with tall brick buildings, an elevated railway, parked cars, and smoke rising over rooftop

Chicago, North Dearborn Street

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a mountain ridge and rolling hills with a standing robed figure in the foreground.

Sea of Tiberiasfrom Hot Baths

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Sepia drawing of flat-topped mesas on a desert plain under a sun with radiating rays and clouds.

Untitled (transfer drawing for print)

George Elbert Burr, 1920

Charcoal sketch of a Venetian canal with gondolas, an arched footbridge, and tall old buildings on both sides.

A Canal at Venice

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan, 1920

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a ruined columned temple with fallen stones and a wooden cart in the foreground.

Temple of Jupiter, Azani, Phrygia

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pencil sketch of village houses, a stone tower, and mountain ridges on a sketchbook page.

(Sketchbook) At Sierre

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of a stone wall with an arched doorway, trees, and a small building, with handwritten color notes.

Untitled (Stairways, Etc.)

Howard Russell Butler

Pencil sketch of a pyramid-shaped mound on a flat horizon with trees, a small boat, and water below.

Pyramid

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1810

Pastel portrait of a woman in a white dress with hands clasped, set against a teal forest background with tree trunks.

Sylvan Background

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a dead, leafless tree with a grazing colt and rocks at its base on pale paper.

Dead Tree and Colt Grazing

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil drawing of three panoramic views of distant mountains and coastline above a sea horizon, labeled Entering Rhodes.

Rhodes

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Drawing of a curving dirt road beside willow trees, with a plowed field and split-rail fence in soft brown chalk.

Landscape with Willow Trees

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pencil sketch of a reclining nude female figure with bent legs and outstretched arms on cream paper.

Swimming Nude, "The Plunge"

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pencil drawing of a long vaulted stone arcade receding to a bright doorway at the far end.

Entrance to Tasso's Prison, Ferrara

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1840

Brown wash drawing of a harnessed horse pulling a loaded cart toward a bridge and distant trees.

The Horse

Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

Pastel drawing of a sunlit stone terrace with stairs, urns, red flower beds and dappled shade under green trees.

Terrace, Prospect Park

William Merritt Chase, 1880

Pencil sketch of a carved stone archway with decorative moldings and smaller arched openings, inscribed St. John's chapel Jer

Gate Jerusalem

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg

Pencil study sheet of horse anatomy showing a skeletal and muscular side view, leg bone details, and a rear view.

Horse's Anatomy

Solon H. Borglum, 1910