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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