New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Smithsonian American Art Museum

413 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Watercolor of a flat marsh with water channels, tree clusters on the horizon, and pink wildflowers in the foreground.

(Landscape with Marshes)

De Lancey Gill, 1890

Watercolor of blue mountain foothills behind dark trees, a green meadow with a dirt path, and a tall conifer at left.

Wyoming Foot Hills

William Henry Holmes, 1920

Watercolor of mountain cranberry sprigs with pink bell-shaped flowers and green leaves on cream paper.

Mountain Cranberry (Vaccinium vitisidaea minus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Loose watercolor landscape of dark trees, blue distant hills and a pale sky, with brown and green washes in the foreground.

Landscape Sketch

J. Frank Currier, 1880

Watercolor landscape of open fields and trees under a cloudy sky, with two small figures walking a path.

Over the Maryland Fields

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor of red canna lily blooms and a small star-shaped cypress vine flower on a green stem with feathery foliage.

Cannas and Cypress Vine (Canna species and Ipomoea quamoclit)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor of a gray house with laundry, trees, chickens and a group of women and children in a sunny yard.

(Landscape)

Ann Brockman, 1940

Loose watercolor of a meadow of pink Joe Pye weed flowers with a dark green tree line and cloudy sky behind.

Field of Joe Pie Weeds (Pride of the Meadow)

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor of a Western Mountain Ash branch with clusters of red berries and green serrated leaves on a pale background.

Western Mountain Ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of the Alban Mountains under clouds, with farmhouses, trees and a flat green plain in the foreground.

Alban Mountains from Via Tuscolana, Rome

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Painting of a flowery meadow with a figure walking a dirt path past trees under a cloudy sky.

Flowery Meadow

William Henry Holmes, 1910

Watercolor of a fringe tree branch with green oval leaves and drooping white thread-like flowers on a brown stem.

Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginica)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Painting of a bearded man in a yellow cloak gesturing to two turbaned men beside a stone building, with workers near a fence.

Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Watercolor of rolling green and ochre fields and trees under a lavender cloudy sky, signed W.H. Holmes 1920.

The Maryland Fields

William Henry Holmes, 1920

Watercolor of a branching plant with small yellow flowers and narrow green leaves on brown stems, on a pale background.

Yellow Willow Grass

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of white birch trees leaning over a pond with two white ducks swimming in a shadowy woodland.

Untitled (Wood Scene with Birch Trees and Ducks)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Watercolor of harvested wheat sheaves in a golden field, with a tree line and farmhouse beneath a cloudy sky.

Maryland Wheat Fields

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor of a mountain laurel branch with pink-white flower clusters and dark green leaves on a tan background.

Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1870

Watercolor landscape of a river with poplar trees, two rowboats on the shore, and a white sailboat on the water.

Landscape

Walter Paris, 1880

Watercolor of a sunlit stream flowing past autumn trees and a grassy meadow with golden foliage.

Autumn in the Meadow Edge

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor of a pussy willow branch with fuzzy grey catkins and yellow pollen on brown and green stems.

Pussy Willow (Salix discolor)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Abstract watercolor landscape with layered green, tan, and gray hills, a pale central form, and a soft blue sky.

Untitled (Landscape)

Arthur Dove, 1930

Watercolor of the Yellowstone River with a rider, a canoe, cottonwood trees, tipis and distant bluffs.

The Yellowstone River near Ft. Keogh, Montana

Hermann Stieffel, 1880

Watercolor of two yellow arnica flowers on slender stems with green leaves and visible roots against a cream background.

Lake Louise Arnica (Arnica louisiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1900

Watercolor of a grassy field with colorful flowers, two blue-green pine trees, and a distant horizon of water.

Watercolor no. 35, Field with Two Pine Trees

Allen Tucker, 1930

Watercolor of a mountain goldenrod plant with two stems of yellow flowers above green basal leaves on cream paper.

Mountain Goldenrod (Solidago oreophila)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a mountain cranberry sprig with red berries, green leaves, brown dried leaves and roots on cream paper.

Mountain Cranberry (Vaccinium vitisdaea minus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor botanical study of a willow sprig with green leaves and pink and yellow catkins on a cream background.

Rock Willow (Salix petrophila)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1910

Watercolor of pink meadow fleabane flowers with yellow centers and green leaves on tall, hairy stems.

Meadow Fleabane (Erigeron speciosus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920