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Oil portrait of a woman in a blue satin gown with lace, holding a rose beside a table with pearls and a jewelry box.

We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian)

Lilly Martin Spencer, 1869

Painting of elegantly dressed couples dancing on a garden terrace beside an urn and statue, with seated onlookers.

Rustic Dance

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1700

Seated woman in a pale lace gown, pearls and feathered headdress, with a patterned shawl, before a dark background and column

Mrs. Cass Gilbert

Arthur Stockdale Cope, 1926

Portrait of a seated man in a brown coat beside red drapery, with a window view of the sea and sky behind him.

Robert Hooper

John Singleton Copley, 1770

Mural study showing helmeted soldiers with a machine gun, a seated woman, and a crowd with raised arms in muted olive and red

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

Kindred McLeary, 1940

Oil painting of a tropical forest at sunset with a thatched house, a rider on a white horse, and distant mountains.

Forest and Native House

Raden Saleh, 1860

Painting of a white mansion on a wooded rise with figures on a path, a church spire at left, and a cloudy sky.

Southeast View of

Thomas Birch, 1819

Full-length painting of a barefoot man in a striped red poncho holding a feathered spear, with mountains and a lake behind.

Peruvian Indian

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Portrait of an elderly man with white hair in a black coat and white cravat, seated in a red upholstered chair.

John Adams

Gilbert Stuart, 1826

Painting of a river flowing through a valley between tall granite cliffs, with pine trees and a cloudy sky.

Gates of the Yosemite

Albert Bierstadt, 1882

Painting of adobe houses among poplar trees, with snowy purple mountains behind and a dirt road in the foreground.

Valley Spring

Victor Higgins, 1940

Painted portrait of a seated woman in a green dress with lace collar, holding a red book, against a dark red background.

Portrait of Helen (Lena) Ten Broeck

Ammi Phillips, 1834

Painting of a young woman in a white gown and floral shawl with flowers in her hair, standing between two trees in a green la

Summer

Frank Weston Benson, 1890

Stylized tropical landscape with a white bird, large palm, cycad tree, blue volcano with smoke, and turquoise sea.

Neapolitan Song

Joseph Stella, 1920

Oil portrait of a man in a powdered wig and red coat leaning on a stone ledge, with a cloudy sky behind him.

Thomas Hopkinson

Robert Feke, 1746

Two women read a small book together in a shaded forest, with a waterfall and pool behind them.

Hermia and Helena

Washington Allston, 1818

Nude goddess with golden braids stands on a shell boat with two cherubs, doves and distant ships at sea.

Venus Guiding Eneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore

William Page, 1860

Painting of a seated man in green robes watching two women and a winged cupid before a red curtain and cloudy sky.

Helen Brought to Paris

Benjamin West, 1776

Painting of waves breaking on dark rocks at a seashore under an amber sky, with gulls and a distant buoy.

Rocky Seashore

Louis Eilshemius, 1902

Painting of a hanging cluster of dark purple grapes with dry brown vine leaves and tendrils on a pale background.

Still Life with Grapes

Edwin Deakin, 1880

Painting of a young boy in a kepi cap and tan uniform carrying a musket, knapsack and blanket roll on a dirt road.

Little Soldier

Eastman Johnson, 1864

Dense tropical forest with tall trees and undergrowth, two small figures and a dog on a path below a cloudy sky.

Javanese Jungle

Raden Saleh, 1860

Two seated women in white Regency dresses, one holding an open book, before a landscape with a cloudy sky.

The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray

John Trumbull, 1800

Painting of a seated man with a dog beneath a rock ledge overlooking a river valley, sailboats, and distant mountains.

Scene on the Hudson (Rip Van Winkle)

James Hamilton, 1845

Portrait of a woman in a red silk gown with white satin skirt, holding a blue and white vase of tulips against a dark backgro

Mrs. George Watson

John Singleton Copley, 1765

Painting of an orange gourd with a pink flower and green leaves against a dark, streaked background.

Still Life

Marsden Hartley, 1930

Painting of a woman in a mauve dress leaning toward a young girl in white holding an open book, seated in a dim interior.

An Interlude

William Sergeant Kendall, 1907

Evening meadow with a low orange sun, a woman carrying hay, grazing cows, and a haystack beside farm buildings.

Sundown

George Inness, 1884

Seated nude woman in a sunlit meadow holding a daisy and an open book, with a yellow-green hillside behind her.

The Open Book

J. Alden Weir, 1890

Painting of a mountain valley with smokestacks and small buildings, boulders and pine trees in the foreground under a cloudy

Leadville, Colorado

Harriet A. Harris, 1880