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Painting of a woman in a straw hat and white dress seated among pink peonies and white flowers in a garden.

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Helene

Carl Newman, 1890

Painting of a half-nude bearded man on straw, gesturing as three figures including a woman in red speak with him.

Job and His Comforters

Two seated women in white dresses, one writing on a tablet, with a stormy landscape behind them.

The Misses Mary and Hannah Murray

John Trumbull, 1806

Two fife and drum soldiers in tricorn hats march in snow, with troops and a flag behind them beside bare trees.

The Continentals

Frank Blackwell Mayer, 1870

Full-length painting of a man in red fez and traditional dress holding a rifle, with mountains and river behind him.

Albanian Man

Antonio Zeno Shindler, 1890

Painting of a mountain above a calm lake at sunset, with a small rowboat with two people and pink clouds overhead.

Whiteface Mountain from Lake Placid

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1866

Painting of a river flanked by colorful angular houses, a tree, and factory chimneys under a blue sky.

Evening Tones

Oscar Bluemner, 1910

Night seascape with a glowing full moon, a sailboat at right, and two slender trees on rocks at left.

The Lovers' Boat

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1881

Oil portrait of a man with wavy dark hair in a black coat, holding a rolled document, against a grey background.

Gentleman of Squire Williams House

Erastus Salisbury Field, 1829

Painting of a sunlit forest clearing with large autumn oak trees and two small figures in the grass.

October

Robert C. Minor, 1830

Watercolor of red sandstone cliffs and spires above green trees and a winding stream under a pale sky.

Hudson River Landscape, no. 1

Maria Rother Wickey, 1926

Oval portrait of a woman in a blue dress with white lace trim against a dark background, painted in 1742.

Mrs. Gustavus Brown

Gustavus Hesselius, 1742

Painting of a medieval procession of knights, banners and carts moving toward a hilltop castle under a cloudy sky.

The Departure of the Crusaders

Victor Nehlig, 1860

Painting of a woman in a shawl seated on a bed, lit by an oil lamp in a dark room.

Mary, by Henry Ossawa Tanner

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1914

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a black puff-sleeved dress resting on a red patterned cushion, with a framed picture on the

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman)

John Singer Sargent, 1893

Soft, hazy winter landscape with a brook winding through snowy fields and trees on a hilltop.

The Brook, Greenwich, Connecticut

John Henry Twachtman, 1900

Painting of a Hereford bull grazing on a grassy plain with a bird on its back and cattle in the distance.

Ajax

John Steuart Curry, 1936

Watercolor of a fortified harbor at Corfu with stone walls, hillside buildings, and a moored sailing ship.

Castle at Corfu, Greece

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, 1814

Ta-do-udo-sa (Prairie Chicken)

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1880

Watercolor of the Pont du Gard aqueduct's tiered stone arches under a blue sky, with green hills and shrubs.

Pont du Gard, France

Cass Gilbert, 1926

Painting of a woman in green holding a nude toddler while a girl in yellow kisses the toddler's cheek.

The Caress

Mary Cassatt, 1902

Oil portrait of a man with dark hair and a white cravat wearing a dark coat against a tan background.

John Cockey, III

Philip Tilyard, 1820

Painting of a mounted hunter with a lance chasing a bison across open plains, other riders and herd in the distance.

Buffalo hunt on the Southwestern plains

John Mix Stanley, 1845

Watercolor of a cloister arcade with striped arches, carved capitals, and a sloping tiled roof beside a stone wall.

Cathedral Cloister at Le Puy

Cass Gilbert, 1929

Painting of the schooner yacht America under full white sails on choppy water, with an American flag and small red boat.

The Yacht America

Charles S. Raleigh, 1870

Half-length portrait of a man in a feathered beaded headband, red blanket and pink shirt, holding a decorated pipe.

No Heart (Nan-che-ning-ga)

Charles Bird King, 1837

Watercolor portrait of a young woman with dark bangs, face softly modeled against muted brown and violet washes.

Mary

Abbott Handerson Thayer

Painting of a dusty adobe town plaza with a whitewashed church, ox cart, carriages, and pedestrians under cloudy skies.

Old Mesilla Plaza

Léon Trousset, 1880

Painting of cream, pink and white roses and carnations among dark green leaves in a loosely brushed garden scene.

Garden in May

Maria Oakey Dewing, 1895

Oil portrait of a young man with dark swept-back hair, dark coat and white collar, against a dim brown background.

Portrait of the Artist, Age 23

William Edgar Marshall, 1860

Oil portrait of a young man with tousled brown hair in a dark coat and white shirt against a warm brown background.

Self-Portrait

Oliver Tarbell Eddy, 1840

Hazy river valley with misty mountains, a leaning pine on a rocky cliff, sailboats on the water, and two figures.

Along the Hudson

John Frederick Kensett, 1852

Painting of a pale horse and mounted riders drinking at a pool at night, with dark figures in shadow behind.

Fired On

Frederic Remington, 1907

Oval oil portrait of a man with tousled dark hair, dark coat and white cravat against a brown background.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Henry Ulke, 1870

Painting of rocky cliffs above churning sea surf beneath a sky of pale clouds, by Paul Dougherty, 1907.

Sun and Storm

Paul Dougherty, 1907

Painting of a mounted warrior on a white horse at a cliff edge, with two riders and distant mesas under a cloudy sky.

Black Knife, an Apache Warrior

John Mix Stanley, 1846

Portrait of a man in a blue coat and red gold-braided waistcoat leaning on a stone balustrade, holding a letter.

Lord Rothes

Lord Rothes, 1760

Still life of fruit, walnuts, wine bottles and glasses on a table, with a landscape visible through a window behind.

Luncheon Still Life

John F. Francis, 1860

Watercolor of a half-timbered courtyard with red tiled roofs, two stone statues, and flowering shrubs and vines.

The Smaller Courtyard, Hotel Guilleaume le Conquerant, Dives, France

Cass Gilbert, 1924

Damaged painting of a young woman in a red floral gown and green headdress before a hilly landscape.

Head of a Young Woman

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1400

Two women lounge on a patterned divan in an ornate room, with a brass tray of roses and almonds in the foreground.

Idle Hours

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1895

Painting of a farmhouse among poplar trees, with laundry on a fence, a pond, and workers in a wheat field.

Long Island Homestead, Study from Nature

Andrew W. Warren, 1859

Painting of a tattooed man in a red loincloth standing by a rocky shore, with ocean waves and palm trees behind him.

Melanesian Man

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890

Watercolor of a rainy Munich street with a Gothic clock tower, carriages, and pedestrians on wet cobblestones.

Street Scene in Munich

Ross Turner, 1880

Painting of a hillside village with white houses and dark roofs among green, ochre and teal rolling hills under a grey sky.

Quebec

Preston Dickinson, 1925

Painting of the Porte Saint-Denis arch in Paris with pedestrians, bare trees and a street lamp in warm earth tones.

Porte St. Denis

Frank Edwin Scott, 1920

Seated woman in a white dress and wide hat leans against a tree in a forest, holding a white parasol.

Sophie Hunter Colston

William Robinson Leigh, 1896

Oil portrait of a man with coiled hair, beaded earrings, shell necklace and a decorated fringed garment against a cloudy sky.

Ha-wón-je-tah, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe

George Catlin, 1832

Painting of a lattice iron footbridge over a river with pedestrians, a seated figure and a boat in the foreground.

Pont des Arts

H. Lyman Saÿen, 1910

Painting of rocky sea cliffs with breaking waves, sailboats on the distant ocean, and a cloudy sky.

Castle Rock, Marblehead

Alfred Thompson Bricher, 1878

Painting of yellow chrysanthemums in a blue and white vase on a wooden table with draped cloth and a chair.

Still Life with Flowers

Russell Cheney, 1881

Painting of cows drinking at a stone fountain with a shepherd and seated woman under trees at dusk.

Small Landscape

Thomas Gainsborough, 1800

Painting of a beach with a rowboat on the sand, calm sea, distant boats, and a large cloudy sky.

The South Strand

Emil Carlsen, 2013

Painted portrait of a man in a feathered headdress, red face paint, and beaded shirt, holding a decorated pipe.

Stu-mick-o-súcks, Buffalo Bull's Back Fat, Head Chief, Blood Tribe

George Catlin, 1832

Painting of a dirt road through a field toward autumn trees and a distant farmhouse under a pale sky.

Landscape

John Francis Murphy, 1880

Portrait of a bearded man in dark naval uniform with gold epaulettes, leaning on rocks before a stormy sea and sky.

Samuel Francis Du Pont

Daniel Huntington, 1867

Two children in white dresses with pink sashes stand beside a potted white lily plant under a dusky sky.

The Davis Children (Eliza Cheever Davis and John Derby Davis)

Edward Savage, 1795

Painting of a red sun low over dark sea and cliffs beneath heavy grey clouds, with small boats on the horizon.

Sunrise over Fishing Waters--Maine

William E. Norton, 1880

Painting of misty sandstone pinnacles and a canyon stream with a bird soaring above, by Thomas Moran, 1892.

Mist in Kanab Canyon, Utah

Thomas Moran, 1892

Watercolor of a wooden house, clothesline, and a family with children and chickens in a fenced yard beside a blue inlet.

(Landscape)

Ann Brockman, 1943

Painting of a shuttered cottage with a veranda framed by tall trees, with wildflowers and birds in soft evening light.

Kalorama Cottage

John Ferguson Weir, 1860

Abstract watercolor of dark blue and green waves breaking into white foam above a tan sandy shore.

The Sea, Maine

John Marin, 1921

Still life of split watermelon, a whole melon, morning glory blossoms and vines on a table against a dark background.

Melons and Morning Glories

Raphaelle Peale, 1813

Full-length painting of a bearded man in a red fez and dark coat standing before a city with domes, minarets and pyramids.

Modern Egyptian

Antonion Zeno Shindler, 1890