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Painting of a seated ballerina in a pale tutu and pink slippers, set against a dark interior background.

Ballerine

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Night rural scene with red barn, white house, utility pole with glowing light, and dark sky above a road.

Bright Light at Russell's Corners

George Ault, 1940

Painting of a reclining nude woman on draped cloth in a dark, shadowed forest clearing with rocks and trees.

Ariadne

Wyatt Eaton, 1880

Three arched panels stacked vertically showing a hunter with a dog, a herder with a cow, and a farmer with a sickle and sheav

The Progress of Civilization: Hunting, Herding, Agriculture (mural study, State Capitol, Des Moines, Iowa)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Painting of a crowd of runners and onlookers on open prairie, with a mounted rider and a distant horizon under a pale sky.

Footrace behind the Mandan Village

George Catlin, 1830

Oil portrait of a seated older woman with feathered grey hair, pearls, fur wrap and patterned shawl against a dark background

Mrs. Cass Gilbert

Arthur Stockdale Cope, 1920

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit holding a rolled document, with a quill, books, and a domed building in the windo

Portrait of Freeman Cary

Robert Seldon Duncanson, 1850

Painting of a dark sailboat among snow-covered ice floes at winter sunset, with pink clouds and distant sails.

Winter Sunset

Birge Harrison, 1890

Painting of children feeding rabbits in a dim stone farm kitchen, with a girl sweeping and a hen nearby.

Farm Interior: Breton Children Feeding Rabbits

William Henry Lippincott, 1870

Loosely painted portrait of a woman with a red flower in her hair, olive shawl, and dark background.

In Life

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Oil portrait of a young woman in a white lace mantilla holding a painted fan against a dark background.

Spanish Dancer Wearing a Lace Mantilla

Mary Cassatt, 1870

Oil portrait of a man in buckskin with beaded necklace and shell pendant, holding a carved wooden stick, against blue sky.

Ma-shée-na, Elk's Horns, a Subchief

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of canoes pursuing a swimming stag on a calm river, with green hills and reflections under a pale sky.

View on the St. Peter's River, Sioux Indians Pursuing a Stag in their Canoes

George Catlin, 1830

Painting of a narrow Venetian canal with gondolas, a small arched bridge, and tall palazzo facades under blue sky.

Canal in Venice, San Trovaso Quarter

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Full-length painting of a standing Native American man in feathered headdress, holding a feathered staff and tomahawk, in red

Kee-o-kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe

George Catlin, 1830

Full-length portrait of a young girl in a blue dress and red shoes, holding cherries beside a rose bush with a yellow butterf

Portrait of Adelia Ellender

Joshua Johnson, 1800

Painting of two large oak trees over a meadow with grazing cows, a walking figure, a rowboat on a pond, and hills under cloud

Oak Trees

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1870

Oil portrait of an elderly bearded man in a dark coat, chin resting on his hand, gazing downward before a pale background.

Captain Wheeler

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Two mounted warriors with lances gallop across a dusty plain under a pale sky, one horse pale and one dark.

Comanche Warrior Lancing an Osage, at Full Speed

George Catlin, 1830

Loose oil sketch of a riverside bleachery with drying cloth, a wooden shed, two seated figures and a misty shore.

Sketch for Lombardy Bleachery

Herman Hartwich, 1890

Oil portrait of a woman with braided hair, bead and coin necklaces, and a fur-trimmed robe against a soft sky.

Wi-lóoh-tah-eeh-tcháh-ta-máh-nee, Red Thing That Touches in Marching, Daughter of Black Rock

George Catlin, 1830

Oil portrait of a young woman with curly hair, wearing a blue blouse and gold necklace against a dark background.

The Necklace

Alice Pike Barney, 1890

Oil portrait of a seated man in a dark suit and red tie holding a folded paper, against a dark background.

William T. Evans

Wyatt Eaton, 1880

Small painting of a man plowing a field with an ox beside a farmhouse and trees under a hazy sky.

Untitled (landscape with man plowing fields)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Vers 1903

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Painted portrait of a seated man with feathers in his hair, red body paint and shell necklace, with teepees behind him.

Quáy-hám-kay, Stone Shell, a Brave

George Catlin, 1830

Three riders on horses cross a wide golden grassland under a pale blue sky with streaked pink clouds.

Bogard, Batiste, and I, Traveling through a Missouri Bottom

George Catlin, 1830

Hazy landscape painting of a white house with red roof, trees, marsh reeds and water under a pale sky with a moon.

Untitled (landscape with house in background)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Painted dome-shaped clay bluffs with striped bands and column-like erosion rise above a calm river under a pale sky.

Picturesque Clay Bluff, 1700 Miles above St. Louis

George Catlin, 1830

Watercolor of a startled boy with a satchel and slate hurrying past a stone wall at night, with a bat and crescent moon overh

Taking the Shortcut

W. H. Norton, 1860