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Loose brushwork painting of a Parisian-style boulevard with bare trees, tall buildings, pedestrians and a pale moon in dusk s

Boulevard St. Germain

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose impressionist painting of horse-drawn cabs with red and yellow wheels on a street beside bare trees and buildings.

Cabs

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of a fishing boat with tall masts on calm water, a figure on the sandy shore, and warm hazy light.

Bateau de Peche

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Misty riverside view of a columned classical building behind bare trees and an arched bridge, painted in warm brown tones.

Chambre des Deputes in a Mist

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Muted painting of a columned classical building behind bare trees, with small figures walking on a snowy path under a dim sky

Chambre des Deputes no. 1

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose brown-toned painting of a columned building, bare trees and poles beneath a pale sky.

Chambre des Deputes no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Muted painting of a columned neoclassical building behind bare trees, a street lamp, and pedestrians on a damp, reflective sq

Chambre des Deputes no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a tall church tower and spire in muted browns, with small figures and a carriage in a square under a pale s

Church of St. Germain des Pres

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a city square with an obelisk, classical buildings, a street lamp, and small walking figures under an orange

La Concorde

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose oil sketch of a harbor with blue water, moored boats with masts, and three figures on a sandy shore.

Cote aux Environs de Cherbourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose oil painting of a church tower with spire on a city street, with warm brick buildings and a lone pedestrian under a gre

Eglise de Ville

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of a sunlit church tower above rooftops, with small figures in a town square under a warm hazy sky.

Eglise Saint Merry

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Women and girls in shawls stand in a sunlit courtyard before an ornate arched doorway with tiled columns.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Figure in a brown cloak beside sunlit stone steps and whitewashed buildings, with a long blue shadow across the courtyard.

Femmes pres des Escaliers no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painted portrait of an elderly man in a wide red hat and red cape against a brown background.

Homme au Chapeau Rouge

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of two sailboats on calm water with a small building and low shoreline in the distance.

Honfleur Fishing Boats no. 1

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of moored fishing boats with masts on a calm water inlet under a hazy tan sky.

Honfleur Fishing Boats no. 2

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Dusky painting of a Paris-style stone bridge over a river, with carriages, pedestrians and tall buildings under a grey sky.

L' Heure Bleu a Paris

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of pedestrians walking past bare trees and a stone building with an iron fence in winter light.

L' Odeon du Luxembourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1911

Hazy sepia painting of a city street with pedestrians, lamp posts, carriages, and a classical columned building at right.

La Madeleine at Dawn

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painted city square with classical columns, a street lamp, bare trees, and small pedestrians under a warm sky.

La Madeleine no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy sepia street scene with pedestrians, bare trees, a columned building and a carriage under an overcast sky.

La Madeleine no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painted street scene of pedestrians and bare trees before a columned classical building under a hazy sky.

La Madeleine no. IV

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose oil sketch of a muted coastal scene with golden clouds, low buildings on the left shore, and dark rocks in the foregrou

Marine

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy beige painting of a Gothic cathedral with twin towers and a spire, with small figures walking in a pale square.

Notre Dame in Winter

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of Notre Dame cathedral across an open square with a bare tree, street lamp, and three small pedestrians in muted to

Notre Dame no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of Notre Dame cathedral with bare trees and small pedestrians crossing a pale open plaza.

Notre Dame no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose brushwork painting of a Gothic cathedral portal with small pedestrians and a cart crossing a pale square.

Notre Dame no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a sunlit city square with classical colonnades, columns, and small pedestrians in pale tones.

Place de la Concorde no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a wide plaza with an obelisk, colonnaded buildings and small pedestrians under a pale sky.

Place de la Concorde no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a sunlit city square with an obelisk, colonnaded buildings, a carriage and small walking figures.

Place de la Concorde no. III

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Muted oil sketch of an open city square with columns, lamp posts, a central fountain and faint figures under pale sky.

Place de la Concorde no. V

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Hazy painting of a city square with a columned building, bare trees, pedestrians and carriages under a pale sky.

Place de la Madeleine no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1910

Painting of a muted street with bare trees, walking figures, and a long building under an overcast sky.

Place de la Madeleine no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of a church tower with a spire rising over city buildings and bare trees beneath a grey sky, in muted browns.

Place St. Germain des Pres

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a masted sailing ship in a dim harbor at dusk, with hazy buildings along the far shore.

Porte de Cherbourg

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Painting of the Porte Saint-Denis arch in Paris with pedestrians, bare trees and a street lamp under a pale sky.

Porte St. Denis

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Loose painting of a city street with an archway, pale buildings, market stalls and small figures under a blue sky.

Porte St. Martin et Enterrement

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Dark painting of a Paris-style street with a carriage, pedestrians, and bare trees under an overcast sky.

Porte St. Martin no. I

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Muted painting of a city street with a stone gateway, a bare tree, pedestrians and a hand cart under an overcast sky.

Porte St. Martin no. II

Frank Edwin Scott, 1863

Oil painting of a standing officer in green uniform and a seated woman in yellow headscarf sewing at a table in a room.

Officer with Peasant

Watercolor panorama of a tent camp beside a river, with riders on horseback and figures in traditional dress in the foregroun

Camp of the Peace Commissioners at Medicine Lodge Creek

Hermann Stieffel, 1867

Watercolor of Miles City, Montana, showing a river, tree-lined town buildings, riders on horseback, and figures on the shore.

Miles City, Montana

Hermann Stieffel, 1879

Watercolor of a forest council where a speaker addresses seated commissioners, with mounted riders and onlookers among tall t

Sa-tan-ti Addressing the Peace Commissioners at Council Grove, Medicine Lodge Creek

Hermann Stieffel, 1867

Children sit on a hill under trees, looking over tents and a distant obelisk above a city in a hazy landscape.

View from Arlington Heights, with Chautaqua Tents and the Washington Monument in the Background

A. H. O. Rolle, 1922

Painting of a garden path with flowering plants, a wooden barrel, and a dark doorway beside a sunlit whitewashed wall.

A Garden Path

Robert Henry Logan, 1896

Worn horizontal mural of an industrial town with smokestacks, a rail bridge and smoke over brown hills.

Western Pennsylvania (mural, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Post Office)

Niles Spencer, 1938

Painting of a partly frozen stream winding through a snowy winter woodland with bare trees and evergreens.

Winter in the Catskill Mountains

John W. Bentley, 1934

Painting of a New Orleans house with Ionic columns, green shutters, leafy shrubs and a yellow neighboring house, by Douglas B

Louis Prima's House, New Orleans

Douglas Brown, 1937

Two mural study sketches in muted blue and brown washes: a robed figure resembling Christ, and a bearded elder in a white rob

Christ and Socrates (mural study, "The Law Givers," U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

Boardman Robinson, 1935

Mural study of helmeted soldiers with rifles and artillery guns amid fire, smoke and a crowd, in olive, blue and orange tones

War (mural study, War Department building, Washington, D.C.)

Kindred McLeary, 1941

Painting of a tall wooden windmill above a snowy red barn, with a small figure at the door under a dark blue sky.

The Windmill

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937

Watercolor of a rocky mountain peak with green and yellow vegetation under a cloudy sky, signed Lewis C. Daniel.

Mt. Marcy

Lewis C. Daniel, 1940

Painting of a steam locomotive leaving a brick engine house amid curving rail tracks, smokestacks, and a red crane under a sm

Engine House and Bunkers

Austin Mecklem, 1934

Watercolor of a boat house with yellow roof, sailboats and rowboats on blue water, a leaning tree, and a wooden fence.

The Boat House

Charles Hechter, 1940

Mural study of cotton harvesting, ginning, and shipping with workers in a field, a factory, and beside a steam train.

Cotton Growing, Manufacture and Export (mural study, Dardanelle, Arkansas Post Office)

Ludwig Mactarian, 1938

Painting of a covered fish market with hanging fish, wooden stalls, and shoppers moving between vendors.

Fish Market

Alberta Kinsey, 1934

Painting of a seated man playing a teal accordion, with expressive dark brushwork and a mauve background.

Accordion Player

Donald Forbes, 1939

Painting of a woman in blue seated at an upright piano in a blue-walled room with a patterned rug and lamp.

Quiet Hour

Cecil Clark Davis, 1940

Three-panel mural study of lawgivers Menes, Moses and Hammurabi with seated, standing and kneeling figures in muted earth ton

Menes, Moses, Hammurabi (mural study, "The Law Givers," U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.)

Boardman Robinson, 1935

Watercolor of steam locomotive 64 marked Pacific Line on tracks, with a wooden ladder and flat green and turquoise ground.

Pacific Line

Douglas Brown, 1937

Painting of couples dancing in a rural dance hall with a fiddler and guitarist, cowboy hats, and a horseshoe on the wall.

Cowboy Dance (mural study, Anson, Texas Post Office)

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1941

Mural study of adobe pueblo, desert, Native runners and women on left, Spanish explorers in armor on right.

Communication during the Period of Exploration (panel number 2) (mural study, Phoenix, Arizona Post Office)

Oscar E. Berninghaus, 1937

Painting of craggy yellow rock formations, a red-spired church, and barbed wire under a dark stormy sky.

S.F. Ruins, No. 1

Jenne Chavaz Magafan, 1937