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Oil painting of a reclining nude woman in white stockings on a draped cloth, with loose sketchy background strokes.

Reclining Nude

Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1909

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

Painting of a deep rocky gorge with a robed shepherd and sheep on a ledge at lower right, under a pale hazy sky.

The Good Shepherd (Atlas Mountains, Morocco)

Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1930

Painting of a crumbling round tower on a plain with ruins, a seated figure, a goat, and mountains under a hazy sky.

Torre di Schiavi

Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, 1865

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

Studio interior with two children before a blank landscape canvas and a painter working at an easel on the right.

Interior with Portraits

Thomas Le Clear, 1865

Painted landscape with a stone castle on a hill, two deer, a kneeling archer, and a winding river under a pale sky.

Landscape with Castles and Deer

M. A. Hall, 1875

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 a glowing butte and red cliffs beneath a dramatic orange sunset sky, with trees and a rocky river in the foregrou

Sunset Cloud, Green River, Wyoming

Thomas Moran, 1917

Loose oil painting of a weathered cabin with a donkey and figures in a field, dark trees behind.

Cabin in Alabama

Anne Goldthwaite, 1920

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 sunlit upland pasture with boulders, grazing cattle, and trees under a pale blue sky.

Upland Pasture

J. Alden Weir, 1905

Painting of peasants with cattle, goats and sheep beside a rocky cliff and stone house under a cloudy sky.

Peasants and Cattle

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem

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

Landscape

John Francis Murphy, 1880

Painting of a sunlit Tuscan farmhouse with a tower, olive trees, a dirt road and rolling hills under a warm sky.

A Tuscan Farm

Edward Bruce, 1926

Three men in a birch bark canoe paddle beside a swimming moose, with a dark wooded cliff behind them.

The Moose Chase

George de Forest Brush, 1888

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 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

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

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

Ajax

John Steuart Curry, 1936

Painting of autumn trees and rocks beside a calm stream under a cloudy sky, with distant figures across the water.

Trees along Stream in Fall

William Trost Richards, 1860

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

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

Landscape painting of a ruined castle on a hill, a river with two figures on rocks, a wooden bridge, and red-roofed cottages.

Landscape

Thomas Gainsborough, 1770

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

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 reclining nude woman in white stockings on a draped grey cloth, with loose sketchy background brushwork.

Reclining Nude

Julius LeBlanc Stewart, 1900

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